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| Estimate : | 850 € |
| Price : | 550 € |
| Maximum bid : | 550 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 March 2018 14:07:43 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Didrachme
Date: c. 417-409 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sélinonte, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 8,32 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large bien centré des deux côtés à l’usure importante, lisible et identifiable. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection M. P
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Héraklès nu debout à droite, tenant la massue de la main droite, attrapant la corne du taureau crétois bondissant à droite et le domptant ; grènetis circulaire.
Obverse legend : [S-E-LI-NOT]-I-ON
Obverse translation : (Sélinonte).
Reverse
Reverse description : Le dieu-fleuve Hypsas, nu, cornu, debout à gauche, tenant une phiale de la main droite et une branche de laurier de la main gauche, sacrifiant au-dessus d'un autel à fronton triangulaire autour duquel s’enroulent deux serpents ; derrière le dieu-fleuve, une grue à gauche surmontée d'une feuille de sélinon.
Reverse legend : HUY-AS
Reverse translation : (Hypsas).
Commentary
Même coin de droit que les exemplaires de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 702-705). Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 705). Sur notre exemplaire, au droit, on note une cassure de coin entre la légende et les pattes du taureau, identique à celle de l’exemplaire de l’ANS.
Historical background
SICILY - SELINUS
(5th century BC)
Selinunte was founded by Megarian settlers. The new coinage begins after 466 BC when Selinunte experienced great economic prosperity. The aggression against Segesta, in 413 BC, provoked the intervention of Athens in Sicily and the disastrous expedition of Alcibiades recounted by Thucydides in the Peloponnesian War. The city emerged victorious from this first test, but could not resist the Carthaginian invasion. The city, besieged, was destroyed in 409 BC and came under Carthaginian domination.
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