Pedigreed to 1957

CNG 112, Lot: 82. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Segesta. Circa 412/0-400 BC. AR Didrachm (22.5mm, 8.21 g, 7h). Hound advancing right, on the scent; three grain ears in background; retrograde ethnic between two exergual lines / Head of the nymph Segesta right, hair in band. Hurter, Didrachmenprägung 195kk (V61/R110 – this coin); HGC 2, 1152; SNG ANS 644; SNG Lloyd 1187 = Bement 322; BMC 38; Boston MFA 314–5 = Warren 281–2; Dewing 673; Jameson 710; Pozzi 529 (all from the same dies). Darkly toned, area of weak strike and minor porosity. Good VF.

From the Baldwin Maull Collection. Ex Hess-Leu 36 (April 1957), lot 91.