v29_0008 - SICILY - SELINUS Statère
MONNAIES 29 (2007)
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 950.00 €
Realised price : 860.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 909.00 €
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 950.00 €
Realised price : 860.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 909.00 €
Type : Statère
Date: c. 500 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sélinonte
Metal : silver
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Weight : 8,97 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire avec une frappe un peu faible au droit et le carré creux du revers légèrement bouché
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Feuille de sélinon (ache, sorte de céleri sauvage) vue de face entre deux globules.
Reverse
Reverse description : Carré creux divisé en neuf quartiers, en aile de moulin.
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire, la forme du carré creux semble particulièrement archaïque.
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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