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Auction 114  28-31 March 2017
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Lot 4090

Starting price: 300 AUD
Price realized: 500 AUD
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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. Provenance - 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.

Estimate: 500 AUD
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