Watch List notes:

SICILY, Selinos. Circa 440 BC. Didrachm (Silver, 22mm, 8.05 g 9). [Σ - E -Λ I - NO - TI -] ON Herakles standing right, holding club overhead, preparing to strike the Cretan Bull, standing right, which he holds by a horn. Rev. HYΨ - AΣ River god Hypsas standing left, holding branch and phiale from which he sacrifices over serpent-entwined altar to left; to right, selinon leaf above heron walking right. Boehringer SNR 76, p. 10, 45 = Rizzo pl. XXI, 16 = SNG Lloyd 1252 (same dies). About very fine.


From a Swiss collection, formed during the 1980s or earlier, privately purchased from Schweizerische Kreditanstalt.