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Lot 94

Starting price: 450 CHF
Price realized: 900 CHF
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SICILY. Selinos. Circa 455-440 BC. Didrachm (Silver, 23 mm, 8.28 g, 8 h). ΣEΛINOTION Herakles standing right, holding club overhead, preparing to strike the Cretan Bull, standing right, which he holds by a horn. Rev. HYΨAΣ 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. SNG ANS 704 (same dies). Obverse struck from a worn die, otherwise, very fine.

From the collection of W. F. Stoecklin, Amriswil, Switzerland, acquired in Taormina in 1931.
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