Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 334. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $1165. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Selinos. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Didrachm (8.42 gm). Herakles subduing the Cretan bull right / HUYAS, river-god Hypsas standing left, holding phiale over canopied altar and branch; serpent coiled around altar, heron and selinon leaf to right. SNG ANS 805 (same dies); Basel 408 (this coin). VF, toned, well centered on a choice flan. ($1000)

From the Tony Hardy Collection. Ex Sammlung Ludwig (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 408.