Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

Lot 4090    SESSION 16 (9.30AM FRIDAY 31ST MARCH)    Greek Silver & Bronze Coins

Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $500

SICILY, Selinus, (c.445-435 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (16.02 g), obv. slow quadriga driven right by Apollo and Artemis standing side by side, holding bow and arrow, rev. Selinus the river god standing facing, head to left, with phiale over altar, sacrificial cock standing before to right, bull to left on pedestal inscribed A incuse, selinon leaf above, traces of **SELINONTION* around, (cf.S.907, Schwabacher, [Mitt. der Bayerischen Num. Gesell. Vol. XLIII, 1925] No.20, dies, obv. 5, rev. 17 [notes only five examples known from these dies]). Pitted mostly around the edge on the obverse and reverse, otherwise nearly very fine/very fine and rare.

Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 73 (lot 3216), Sale 60 (lot 1778) and Terry Naughton Collection.

Willy Schwabacher, in the cited reference above, notes from these dies five coins, two examples in Berlin, one in the British Museum [Ex. Hirsch sale 21], another in Pozzi sale 1921 and the last in a private collection. Fifth century B.C. coins from Selinus are rare, Schwabacher knew of only 262 coins from this city.