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Triton XX, Lot: 68. Estimate $7500.
Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-409 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.32 g, 1h). Artemis, holding reins in both hands, driving quadriga right; beside her, Apollo standing right, drawing bow; barley grain in exergue / River god Selinos, nude, standing facing, head left, holding in right hand a phiale over lighted altar, cradling in left arm a palm branch decorated with fillet; before altar, cock standing left; to right, selinon leaf above bull standing left on basis; ΣEΛINONTI-ON around. Schwabacher 23 (Q7/S19); HGC 2, 1221; SNG ANS 697 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1235 (same rev. die); Rizzo pl. 33, 1 (same rev. die); McClean 2577 (same dies). EF, underlying luster. Removed from NGC graded AU. Strike: 5/5; Surface 4/5; Fine Style.


From the MM Collection. Ex Northern California Collection (Heritage 3044, 3 January 2016), lot 31004; Classical Numismatic Group 40 (4 December 1996), lot 829.