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Auction 12  11 January 2015
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Lot 39

Estimate: 2200 USD
Price realized: 1800 USD
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Sicily. Selinus. c. 450-430 BC. Didrachm, 8.23g (6h). Obv: [ΣΕΛΙΝΟΤ]ΙΟΝ Herakles stepping right, wielding club and grasping horn of Cretan bull beside him. Rx: ΗΥΨΑΣ River-god Hypsas standing left holding phiale and branch, between altar with serpent coiled around it on left, and selinon leaf above crane standing right on right. SNG Lloyd 1265 (same dies). SNG ANS 709. VF

Ex Berk 180, 16 August 2012, lot 220. Ex Superior, 30 May 1995, lot 7162

The obverse show Herakles performing one of his twelve labors, the capture of the Cretan bull
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