Live auction - bgr_621628 - SICILY - SELINUS Litra
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| Estimate : | 550 € |
| Price : | 700 € |
| Maximum bid : | 700 € |
| End of the sale : | 27 October 2020 14:04:36 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Litra
Date: c 417-409 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sélinonte
Metal : silver
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 0,67 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Joli droit bien venu à la frappe. Revers de style fin. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient d’une vente Burgan , n° 309 et de la collection de Luc Corso
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Nymphe (Eurymedusa) assise à gauche sur un rocher, tenant un serpent de la main droite, levant la main gauche au-dessus de sa tête ; au-dessus, une feuille de céleri (ache).
Reverse
Reverse description : Taureau androcéphale passant à droite surmonté d’une feuille decéleri ; à l’exergue, un poisson.
Reverse legend : SELINONTI
Reverse translation : (de Sélinonte).
Commentary
Semble complètement inédit et non recensé avec ce type de légende au revers (SELINONTI au lieu de SILENOES.
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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