138, Lot: 29. Estimate $500. Sold for $371. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-409 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.90 g). Artemis driving quadriga right, Apollo beside her drawing bow; grain in exergue / River-god Selinos standing left, drapery around waist hung over left arm, sacrificing from phiale over lighted altar in right hand and holding branch in left; rooster on altar, bull on basis and selinon leaf to right. Schwabacher 26 (Q8/S20); SNG ANS 699 (same obverse die). Fine, toned, two test cuts on obverse.