Biblical & Jewish Coins
Lot 1737 Session 6 (9.30am Thursday) Biblical & Jewish Coins
Estimate $700
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SOLD $650
SICILY, Selinus, (520-500 B.C.), silver didrachm, (8.4 grams), obv. selinon leaf with even flat ridge pattern on leaves, rev. incuse square divided into triangles, with sectors set in parallel lines, (S.730, cf.ANS MN 33, Pl. 1, No.14). Some dark spotting on the reverse, otherwise good very fine and rare.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 57 (lot 839) and a recent Archaic Silver Hoard, (this hoard contained a small group of coins from Selinus many from different dies to the Selinus hoard cited above).
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Estimate $700
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