452, Lot: 86. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Selinos. Circa 540-515 BC. AR Didrachm (21mm, 7.56 g). Selinon leaf; pellets to upper left and right, and flanking stem / Incuse square divided into ten sections. Arnold-Biucchi Group I, 4 (same rev. die as illustration); Selinus Hoard 10 (same dies); HGC 2, 1209; SNG ANS 665 (same dies); Triton XVIII, 376 (same dies). Darkly toned, some porosity. VF.
From the Baldwin Maull Collection, purchased circa 1950s-early 1960s.