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Lot 197

Starting price: 100 CHF
Price realized: 360 CHF
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GREEK COINS
Sicily

Selinos. Circa 440 BC. Didrachm (Silver, 23mm, 8.18 g 1). Σ-E-ΛI- 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. Rizzo pl. XXI, 16 = SNG Lloyd 1252 (same obverse die). Some corrosion, otherwise, about very fine.

From a collection in Ticino, formed over 20 years ago.

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