389, Lot: 44. Estimate $1000. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-440 BC. AR Didrachm (21mm, 8.65 g, 9h). 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. HGC 2, 1224; SNG ANS 703. VF, toned, off center on reverse.

Ex G. Hirsch 150 (5 May 1986), lot 125.