Watch List notes:

SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-440 BC. AR Didrachm (23.5mm, 8.38 g, 9h). Herakles, nude, standing right, holding club overhead in right hand, preparing to strike the Cretan Bull, standing right in background, which he holds by a horn with his left hand; [Σ]-E-ΛI-ИOT-I-OИ around / River god Hypsas, nude, standing left, holding branch in left hand and phiale in right from which he sacrifices over serpent-entwined altar to left; to right, selinon leaf above heron walking right; HYΨ-AΣ above. HGC 2, 1224; SNG ANS 704 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1261–2 (same dies); Dieudonné 159 (same dies); Gillet 495 (same obv. die); Kraay & Hirmer 187 (same obv. die); Rizzo pl. XXXI, 16 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, minor die wear.


From the J. L. Gomer Collection. Ex Heritage 3026 (25 September 2013), lot 23032; Numismatica Ars Classica 64 (17 May 2012), lot 705; Dr. Roland Maly Collection (LHS 100, 23 April 2007), lot 173; Hess-Leu [19] (12 April 1962), lot 82.