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SICILY. Segesta. Circa 412/10-400 BC. Litra (Silver, 12 mm, 0.75 g, 6 h). Diademed head of the nymph Segesta three-quarters facing to left, her hair bound up at the back; to left and right, two olive branches tied below the nymph's chin. Rev. ΕΓΕΣ - [Τ-ΑΙ-ΟΝ] (retrograde) Hunting dog standing to left; above, gorgoneion; in the field to left, whelk downwards. Buceti 90. Cf. Hurter K30/K29 (this die combination apparently unrecorded). Clear, well-centered and nicely toned. Good very fine.
From the "Collection sans Pareille"of Ancient Greek Fractions, ex Hess-Leu 31, 6 December 1966, 122 and from the collections of G. Philipsen, Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906, 1106 and L. Walcher de Molthein, A.E. Cahn, 25 February 1901, 540 and Rollin et Feuardent and Holzhausen, (V. Renner), Catalogue de la collection des médailles grecques de M. le Chevalier Léopold Walcher de Molthein, Paris/Vienna 1895, 541.
The heads of the eponymous nymph on Segesta's coinage are almost all copied from prototypes on the coinage of Syracuse; but not this one! She's a Segestan engraver's original creation, impressive but not really successful.
From the "Collection sans Pareille"of Ancient Greek Fractions, ex Hess-Leu 31, 6 December 1966, 122 and from the collections of G. Philipsen, Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906, 1106 and L. Walcher de Molthein, A.E. Cahn, 25 February 1901, 540 and Rollin et Feuardent and Holzhausen, (V. Renner), Catalogue de la collection des médailles grecques de M. le Chevalier Léopold Walcher de Molthein, Paris/Vienna 1895, 541.
The heads of the eponymous nymph on Segesta's coinage are almost all copied from prototypes on the coinage of Syracuse; but not this one! She's a Segestan engraver's original creation, impressive but not really successful.