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 €

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 :

ANS.679 - MIAMG.4721 (1400e) - GC.730 (400£)

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.
In this example, the shape of the hollow square seems particularly archaic

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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