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Triton XXIII  14-15 Jan 2020
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Lot 111

Estimate: 7500 USD
Price realized: 6000 USD
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SICILY, Segesta. Circa 390/85 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.05 g, 7h). Aigiste, holding grain ear in right hand and reins in both, driving fast quadriga right; above, Nike flying left, crowning her with wreath; in exergue, [Σ]EΓ-EΣTAZIA above grasshopper right / The hunter Aigestes, nude, standing right, left foot propped on rock, pileus hanging from his neck, and holding in left hand two spears over his shoulder; two hounds below, one at bay right, the other crouched right, sniffing at ithyphallic herm to right. Hurter, Didrachmenprägung, Group IV, T11 (V5/R10); Lederer 10; HGC 2, 1109; BMC 33 (same dies); Rizzo pl. LXII, 17 (same dies); Sartiges 116 (same dies). Toned, some die wear on obverse. Good VF. Rare.


From the B. G. Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 253 (5 March 2018), lot 66.
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