294, Lot: 75. Estimate $500. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-440 BC. AR Didrachm (21mm, 7.70 g, 10h). Herakles standing right, holding club overhead, preparing to strike the Cretan Bull, standing right, which he holds by a horn / River god Hypsas standing left, holding branch and phiale from which he sacrifices over serpent-entwined altar to left; to right, selinon leaf above heron walking right. Rizzo pl. XXXI, 16 (same dies); SNG ANS 703 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1252 (same dies); Basel 408 (same obv. die); Jameson 723 (same obv. die). Near VF, toned, minor porosity, a few light marks.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex J. Hirsch XXI (16 November 1908), lot 658.