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SICILY, Segesta. Circa 405/2-400 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 16.93 g, 6h). The hero Egestes, nude, standing right, cap slung over shoulder and chlamys over left arm, resting left foot on rock; below, two hounds standing right at his feet, one sniffing the ground; small ithyphallic herm to lower right / Head of the nymph Segesta right, hair bound in ampyx and a star embroidered sakkos, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace with pendants; sE˝EstÅ$5Å to right, grain ear below. Hurter, Didrachmenprägung T9 (V4/R8); Lederer 7; HGC 2, 1108; SNG ANS 646 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1195 = ACGC 849 (same dies); de Luynes 1120 (same dies); Dewing 674 (same dies); Gulbenkian 241 = BMC 31 (same dies); Hunt IV 84 (same dies); Jameson 709 (same dies); Pozzi 531 (same dies); Rizzo pl. LXII, 15 (same dies). Old collection tone, scratches, edge marks. VF.
Ex Chaponnière & Firmenich 10 (21 October 2018), lot 7.
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.
Although the most common denomination at Segesta was the didrachm, a few very rare and extremely accomplished tetradrachms were minted in about 400 BC with a remarkably detailed representation of a young huntsman. S. Hurter has maintained the traditional identification of this young man as Egestes, the legendary founder of the city, son of the Trojan maiden Segesta by the river-god Krimsos. Other plausible identifications are the hunter Krimsos or Pan, god of the hunt.
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