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NYINC Signature Sale 3071 6-7 Jan 2019
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SICILY. Selinus. Ca. 440-409 BC. AR didrachm (25mm, 8.33 gm, 7h). NGC AU 4/5 - 3/5, overstruck. Nude Heracles to right pressing left knee against Cretan bull and grasping right horn with left hand, right hand wields club about to strike the bull, ethnic around, here indistinct due to die wear / Nude river-god Hypsas standing left holding branch and patera, pouring libation over altar around which a serpent twines, to right heron walking right, selinon leaf above. SNG ANS 707.
John Whitney Walter Collection (Stack's Bowers Galleries ANA, 14 August 2018), lot 20007; Purchased from NFA with their tag.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 3000-3500 USD
SICILY. Selinus. Ca. 440-409 BC. AR didrachm (25mm, 8.33 gm, 7h). NGC AU 4/5 - 3/5, overstruck. Nude Heracles to right pressing left knee against Cretan bull and grasping right horn with left hand, right hand wields club about to strike the bull, ethnic around, here indistinct due to die wear / Nude river-god Hypsas standing left holding branch and patera, pouring libation over altar around which a serpent twines, to right heron walking right, selinon leaf above. SNG ANS 707.
John Whitney Walter Collection (Stack's Bowers Galleries ANA, 14 August 2018), lot 20007; Purchased from NFA with their tag.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 3000-3500 USD