Lot 3104

Sale 70 · Important Australian, British & World Coins, Tokens, Medals & Banknotes

Description

Sicily, Selinus, (466-415 B.C.), silver didrachm, (8.220 grams), obv. **S*ELINOTION (partly retrograde around), naked Hercules, advancing right seizing by its horn the Cretan bull which gallops right, he wields a club held high in raised hand, rev. river god Hypsas naked standing facing head left, traces of HY**YAS* around, holding phiale over altar around which a snake is twined, holds laurel branch, to right crane running right, selinon leaf above, (S.908 [£900], BMC 34, SNG ANS 705 [same dies], SNG Cop 601 [similar dies]). Nearly very fine and rare.

A similar example in our Sale 69 (lot 1729) realised $1300.

Estimate
$1,200
Result Status
Sold
Prices Realised
$0