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Lot 95

Starting price: 500 CHF
Price realized: 3400 CHF
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SICILY. Selinos. Circa 455-409 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 29 mm, 16.88 g, 1 h). Apollo and Artemis standing right in a quadriga moving slowly to right; in exergue, wheat grain . Rev. ΣΕΛΙΝΟΝΤΙΟN The river-god Selinos, horned and nude, holding laurel branch in his left hand and a phiale in his right; to left, rooster standing left before altar; to right, selinon leaf over bull standing left on a base. Schwabacher 31 (Q8/S22). SNG ANS 700 (same dies). Toned and well centered. Struck from the usual worn obverse die, and with traces of corrosion on the reverse, otherwise, nearly very fine.

From the collection of W. F. Stoecklin, Amriswil, Switzerland, bought from Hans Nussbaum in Zürich in 1936, previously in the collection of Baron Bellio, Bucharest; ex. Naville IV, 17-19 June 1922, 297.
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