Live auction - bgr_532900 - SICILY - SELINUS Statère
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| Estimate : | 2 200 € |
| Price : | 1 300 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 000 € |
| End of the sale : | 04 June 2019 14:04:07 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Statère
Date: c. 520-515 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sélinonte, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24 mm
Weight : 8,84 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité tout à fait exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un flan large, particulièrement bien centré et complet. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Feuille de sélinon (ache, sorte de céleri sauvage) vue de face.
Reverse
Reverse description : Carré creux divisé en huit quartiers, en aile de moulin dont quatre en relief.
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire, la forme du carré creux semble particulièrement archaïque et est très bien venue avec huit compartiments.
Historical background
SICILY - SELINUS
(520-490 BC)
Selinunte was, according to Montenegro, founded in 628 BC by settlers from Megara Hyblæa (Sicily), itself a colony of Megara (Megaride, Central Greece). The city was located on the southern coast of Sicily, at the mouth of the Selinos river, in the area of Carthaginian influence. Populated by Greeks and indigenous Siceliotes, the city owes its name to the leaf which adorns the right of its staters and which is still found today in the wild state on the territory of the city and which resembles parsley..
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