404, Lot: 16. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-440 BC. AR Didrachm (22.5mm, 7.92 g, 12h). 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. Good VF, thick find patina, slight roughness.