Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 1729 Session 6 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $1,200
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,300
SICILY, Selinus, (466-415 B.C.), silver didrachm, (8.34 grams), obv. **S*ELINOTION (partly retrograde around), naked Hercules, jumping right seizing by its horn the Cretan bull which gallops right, wields a club held high in raised hand, rev. river god Hypsas naked standing facing head left, traces of HY**YAS* around, holding phiale over altar around which a snake is twined, holds laurel branch, to right crane running right, selinon leaf above, (S.908 [£900], BMC 34, SNG ANS 705 [same dies], SNG Cop 601 [similar dies]). Good fine and rare.
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Estimate $1,200
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