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GREEK COINS
SICILY

Selinos. Circa 455-409 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 28mm, 17.11 g 5). ΣΕΛΙΝΟΝΤΙΟΣ (retrograde) Apollo and Artemis standing left in a quadriga moving slowly to left; Artemis holding the reins and Apollo drawing his bow. Rev. ΣΕΛΙΝΟΣ The river-god Selinos, horned and nude, holding laurel branch in his left hand and a phiale in his right, from which he pours a libation over a garlanded altar to left; to left, rooster standing left; to right, selinon leaf over a bull standing left on a base. Haymann, 'Antike Münzen sammeln', this coin illustrated on the front cover. Schwabacher 4. Cf. Rizzo pl. XXXI, 14. Rare. Obverse slightly flat struck and with slight traces of corrosion, otherwise, nearly extremely fine.

From a European collection formed in the 1990s.