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Triton XXV  11-12 Jan 2022
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Lot 86

Estimate: 5000 USD
Price realized: 10 000 USD
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SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-409 BC. AR Tetradrachm (20.5mm, 17.29 g, 11h). Artemis, holding reins in both hands, driving quadriga left; beside her, Apollo standing left, drawing bow; retrograde ΣEΛIN[O-N]-T-ION around / River god Selinos, nude, standing left, holding in right hand a phiale over altar to left, cradling in left arm a palm branch; before altar, cock standing left; to right, selinon leaf above bull standing left on basis; Σ-EΛI-NO-Σ around above. Schwabacher 6 (Q1/S6); HGC 2, 1220; Bement 437 (same dies); McClean 2576 (same dies); Warren 286 (same dies). Deeply toned, die wear on obverse. Good VF.

From the Pythagoras Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29 May 1997), lot 145; Numismatics Fine Arts XXIX (13 August 1992), lot 30; Massachusetts Historical Society/Adams Family Collection (Part I, Stack's, 5 March 1971), lot 111.
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