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SICILY. Segesta. Circa 405-400 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 28 mm, 16.71 g, 9 h). ΣΕΓΕΣΤΑΙΩΝ The hunter Aigestes, nude but for cloak over his left arm, with his pileos hanging on a cord at the back of his neck and his sword hanging at his waist on a strap going over his right shoulder, standing right, his left foot on a rock, holding two spears over his shoulder with his left hand and resting his right on his waist; he gazes right at a herm (here barely visible at the edge of the flan) and has two hunting dogs prowling right at his feet. Rev. ΣΕΓΕ-ΣΤΑΖΙB Head of the nymph Segesta to left, wearing a triple-pendant earring, a necklace with pendants and with her hair bound in an ampyx and a sakkos; below her neck and behind her head, barley stalk and ear. Buceti 88a. Hurter T7d (V4/R6, this coin). Kraay-Hirmer 203 (same obverse die), 204 (same reverse die). Lederer 5. Mildenberg, Kimon, pl. 11, 20. Rizzo pl. LXII, 13 (same dies). Very rare. Of very fine style with a particularly painterly obverse, and a reverse head of the nymph Segesta of a full-blown, almost baroque beauty. A very pleasing coin. Obverse somewhat weakly struck and with some striking flatness on the reverse, otherwise, extremely fine.
Ex Tkalec 7 May 2006, 26 and Astarte XII, 12 September 2003, 75.

The head of Segesta on the reverse of this coin is an elaborately coiffed voluptuous one! In fact the nymph Segesta was originally a Trojan woman who had been sent from Troy by her father Hippotes, who wanted to protect her from being eaten by monsters sent by Apollo and Poseidon. When she arrived in Sicily a local river god, Crimisus, promptly seduced he while in the form of a dog (thus the dog appears as Segesta's badge - see the previous lot). The fruit of their union was Aigestes, who then founded the city of Segesta, named after his mother.