Watch List notes:

GREEK COINS
Selinus

Tetradrachm circa 420, AR 17.17 g. Slow quadriga driven r. by Artemis, holding reins in both hands; beside her Apollo r., shooting arrow from bow. In exergue, barley-grain. Rev. ΣΕΛ − ΙΝΟΝΤΙ − [ΟΝ] The young river-god Selinus, naked, standing l., holding laurel branch in l. hand and sacrificing out of patera over lighted altar; in front of which, cock. In r. field, bull standing l. on rectangular base, above, Selinon leaf. Rizzo pl. XXXIII, 2 (this reverse die). SNG ANS 699 (these dies). Schwabacher 30.
Rare. Light iridescent tone, obverse as usual from a worn die and minor area of
porosity, otherwise good very fine / extremely fine


Ex J. Elsen sale 64, 2000, 113.