Lot 3104
Sale 70 · Important Australian, British & World Coins, Tokens, Medals & Banknotes
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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