Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXXAuction date: 21 March 2024
Lot number: 64

Price realized: 4,400 GBP   (Approx. 5,574 USD / 5,132 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:


Sicily, Selinos AR Tetradrachm. Circa 440-420 BC. Artemis, holding bow and reins, driving biga to right with Apollo standing beside her, drawing bow; barley corn in exergue / River god Selinos standing to left, sacrificing from phiale over lighted altar to left and holding branch; cockerel on altar, selinon leaf and bull on base to right, ΣEΛINONTINON around. Schwabacher 16 (Q5/S14); SNG ANS 696 (same obv. die); SNG München 881 (same rev. die); HGC 2, 1221. 17.08g, 29mm, 5h.

Extremely Fine; beautiful old cabinet tone, some light scratches to obv.

Ex Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger, Auction 403, 27 April 2011, lot 40 (hammer: EUR 10,000);
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Auction 54, 24 March 2010, lot 47;
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Auction 29, 11 May 2005, lot 103;
Ex Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 46, 30 October 1989, lot 35;
Ex A. D. M. Collection, Sternberg, Auction 17, 9 May 1986, lot 61.

Estimate: 5000 GBP