Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 75. Estimate $2000. Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005. Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Selinos. Circa 460-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.46 gm, 11h). NO-TIN-ONILES (retrograde), Artemis driving slow quadriga left, holding reins in both hands; beside her, Apollo standing left, drawing bow / Nude Selinos walking left, holding in right hand a phiale over canopied altar, palm branch in left; to left, rooster standing left before altar; to right, selinon leaf and bull standing left on basis. Schwabacher 2 (Q1/S2); SNG ANS 688 (same obverse die); SNG Copenhagen 597; SNG Lloyd 1220 (same dies). VF, lightly toned. Well struck and centered. ($2000)