| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 146 | Auction date: 8 May 2024 |
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| Lot description: Segesta. Tetradrachm circa 405-400, AR 28 mm, 16.59 g. [EΓE ΣTAIΩN] Aegestes, the city's founder, as hunter, standing r. with l. foot upon rock, r. hand resting on hip, l. elbow on knee; he wears a pilos suspended behind the neck, sword hanging from strap around l. shoulder, ankle-boots (cothurni) and chlamys over l. arm; two javelins in l. hand. At his feet, two hounds r. and in r. field, ithyphallic herm l., wearing petasus. Rev. ΣΕΛΕ – ΣΤΑZΙA Head of the nymph Segesta r., wearing earring and necklace, hair caught in amphyx and sphendone. Behind head, ear of barley. Rizzo pl. LXII, 13 (this obverse die). Kraay-Hirmer 203 (these dies). Mildenberg, Kimon in the manner of Segesta in Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Numismatics, Paris, 1973, pl. 11, 21 (these dies). Lederer 6. Hunter T8k (this coin). Extremely rare. An appealing specimen of this charming and celebrated issue. Lovely old cabinet tone, hairline flan crack at six o'clock on obverse, otherwise about extremely fine Ex NAC 10, 1997, 125; NAC 23, 2002, 1112 and Gorny & Mosch 175, 2009, 41 sales. Estimate: 30000 CHF |  |
