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452, Lot: 88. Estimate $500.
Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-440 BC. AR Didrachm (22.5mm, 8.21 g, 1h). Herakles standing right, holding club overhead, preparing to strike the Cretan Bull, standing right, which he holds by a horn / River god Hypsas standing left, holding branch and phiale from which he sacrifices over serpent-entwined altar to left; to right, selinon leaf above heron walking right. HGC 2, 1224; SNG ANS 703. Light porosity, some die wear on obverse (typical for die). Good Fine.


From the John L. Cowan Collection, purchased from Kirk Davis, September 2004.