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Auction 114  13-14 May 2020
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Lot 50

Estimate: 2000 USD
Price realized: 2500 USD
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SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-409 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 16.94 g, 7h). Artemis, holding reins, driving quadriga left; beside her, Apollo standing right, drawing bow; wreath above, ˙(?) below horses, crawfish in exergue / Selinos standing left, holding palm frond and phiale over altar to left; before altar, cock standing left; to right, small figure (Eros?), holding object in each hand, advancing left in a square tablet above selinon leaf above bull standing left on wreathed basis; in exergue, fish left. Schwabacher 39 (Q13/S30); HGC 2, 1221; SNG Lloyd 1238 (same dies); Berlin 578 (same dies); Dewing 682 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXXIII, 10 (same rev. die). Attractively toned, faint cleaning marks. VF. Rare.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 215; Athos D. Moretti Collection; Hess-Leu [3] (27 March 1956), lot 147.
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