CNG 102, Lot: 119. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-409 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 17.21 g, 9h). Artemis, holding reins in both hands, driving quadriga left; beside her, Apollo standing left, drawing bow; retrograde ΣEΛINO-NTI-ON around / 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; Σ-EΛI-ИO-Σ around above. Schwabacher 6 (Q1/S6); HGC 2, 1220; SNG ANS 688; SNG Lloyd 1224; SNG München 880; BMC 26; Hunterian 5 (all from the same obv. die). VF, lightly toned, struck with worn obverse die, tiny die flaw on reverse.
Ex Cayón (30 November 2013), lot 230.