Triton XIX, Lot: 45. Estimate $5000. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-409 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.13 g, 6h). Artemis, holding reins in both hands, driving fast quadriga right; nearly hidden beside her, Apollo standing right; in exergue, ΣEΛINONTION above grain ear right / River god Selinos, nude, standing left, holding in right hand a phiale over altar to left, cradling in left arm a palm branch; before altar, cock standing left; to right, selinon leaf above bull standing left on basis. Schwabacher 44 (Q14/S34); HGC 2, 1223 (same dies as illustration); Basel 411 = Rizzo pl, XXXIII, 11 (same dies); Bement 441 (same dies); BMC 44–5 (same obv. die); Gillet 499 (same obv. die); Gulbenkian 247 (same dies); Jameson 726 (same obv. die); Kraay & Hirmer 191 (same obv. die). EF, attractive even gray tone with slight iridescence around the devices, underlying luster, small chip at edge on reverse.

Duplicate from the Collection of M. A. Armstrong. Ex Sotheby’s (8 July 1996), lot 19; Leu 38 (13 May 1986), lot 29.