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SICILY, Segesta. Circa 475/0-455/0 BC. AR Didrachm (20.5mm, 8.58 g, 6h). Hound standing right, on the scent / Head of Aigiste right. Hurter, Didrachmenprägung, Period I, Series 2, 19a (V5/R15 – this coin); HGC 2, 1113. Toned, cleaning scratches and marks, edge filed. VF.
Ex Morton & Eden 20 (27 June 2006), lot 201.
Segesta was the principal city of the Elymi in north-west Sicily. The Segestans wrote their Elymian language in Greek characters, as witnessed by their coins. They developed a traditional hostility with Selinos, in the pursuit of which they allied themselves with Athens in 418/7 BC (Thuc. 6. 6-8 and 46). In 409 BC, Segesta passed into the Carthaginian sphere of influence in another attempt to combat the encroachments of Selinos. Carthage captured and sacked Selinos in that same year.
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