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E-Sale 75  15 Oct 2020
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Lot 1080

Estimate: 200 GBP
Price realized: 130 GBP
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Electrotype: Sicily, Segesta AR Tetradrachm. British Museum electrotype; stamped MB (Latin initials for Museum). Circa 400 BC. The hunter Aigestes, nude but for chlamys over his left arm and pileus hanging down from the back of his neck, standing right, his left foot propped on a rock, holding two spears in his left hand and with his sword suspended from belt going across his shoulders; at his feet, two hunting dogs prowling towards an ithyphallic herm standing left on the right, [EΓEΣTA]IΩN behind / Head of the nymph Segesta to right, wearing pendant earring and necklace, and with hair bound up in an ampyx and a sakkos ornamented with stars; below and to left, stalk of grain; ΣELEΣTAꞮIA before. Head, Guide 31; cf. BMC 32 for prototype. 16.77g, 30mm, 11h.

Condition as seen.

Acquired from Baldwin's of St. James's.
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