342, Lot: 54. Estimate $500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Selinos. Circa 410 BC. AR Litra (11mm, 0.76 g, 1h). Nymph seated left on rock, right hand raised above her head, extending her left hand to touch coiled serpent before her; selinon leaf above / Man-headed bull standing right; ΣEΛINONTIOΣ above; in exergue, fish right. HGC 2, 1229; SNG ANS 711–2 var. (ethnic); SNG Ashmolean 1904–5; SNG Lloyd 1270 var. (same); Basel –; Dewing –; Rizzo pl. XXXIII, 6. Good VF, dark iridescent tone, some porosity. Rare.
From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Leu 79 (31 October 2000), lot 404.