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Auction 95-96  24 Oct 2018
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Lot 313

Estimate: 6000 GBP
Price realized: 5500 GBP
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Segesta, didrachm, c. 475-450 BC, hound standing right with head lowered, on double exergual line, rev., ΣΕΓΕΣΤΑZΙ-Β, head of nymph Segesta right wearing earring and necklace, 8.44g, die axis 5.00 (Hurter 45a, this coin; Ward 221, this coin; Weber 1502, same dies), faint flan crack, good very fine and very rare, from the Ward collection, J. Pierpoint Morgan and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Provenance: John Ward collection; J. Pierpoint Morgan (before 1905); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sotheby's Zurich, 4 April 1972, lot 181; Numismatica Ars Classica 6, 1993, lot 78; Dr. Murray Gell-Mann collection; Roma XI, 7 April 2016, lot 102.
(6000-8000 GBP)
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