The Tom May Collection - Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 3313 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) The Tom May Collection - Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $600
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SOLD $700
SICILY, Selinus, silver didrachm, 520-500 B.C., (8.950 gm), obv. selinon leaf, rev. incuse square divided into ten triangles (S.730, ANS MN 33, Pl. 1 No.13 This Coin). Very fine and rare.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 86 (lot 3272) and Sale 53 (lot 2046), coming from and the Selinus Archaic Silver Hoard. This hoard contained 35 coins of Selinus. The most extensive find of this mint, coming as a hoard of 165 silver coins and four silver ingots. The hoard was buried between 510-500 B.C. and is consequently the earliest of its kind ever found in Sicily. The obverse and reverse dies on this coin are die linked to the earliest coins known from that hoard and this coin provides the die link through the obverse die.
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Lot 3311
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Lot 3312
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Lot 3313 This lot
SICILY, Selinus, silver didrachm, 520-500 B.C., (8.950 gm), obv. selinon leaf, rev. incuse square divided ...
Estimate $600
Lot 3314
SICILY, Syracuse, (c.485-478 B.C. revised date 467-461), silver tetradrachm, (17.35 gm), obv. fast walking quadriga ...
Estimate $800
Lot 3315
SICILY, Syracuse, (405-395 B.C.), period of end of Second Dynasty and Dionysius I, silver litra ...
Estimate $100