ANCIENT COINS. GREEK. Sicily, Selinos (c.450 B.C.), Silver Tetradrachm, 17.00g, 9h. ΣEΛINO-NTI-[OΣ] (retrograde), quadriga moving slowly to left, driven by Artemis, who holds the reins, Apollo stands beside her, drawing a bow. Rev. Σ-EΛI-NO-Σ, the river-god Selinos, naked, standing facing left, holding a branch upwards in his left hand, and pouring a philae over an altar with his right, a cockerel stands to left in front of the altar, a selinon leaf above a bull standing facing left on a base on right (W. Schwabacher, 'Die Tetradrachmenprägung von Selinut', MBNG XLIII, 1925, 6 (Q1β/S6); SNG Lloyd 1224 (these dies); McClean 2576, pl. 88, 3 (these dies)). Obverse die a little worn, with a flaw in the exergue, otherwise very fine. Rare.
Ex Numismatic Fine Arts, Inc., Auction XVI, New York, 2 December 1985, lot 61
Estimate: $3,500