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Live auction - bgr_648470 - SICILY - SELINUS Tétradrachme

SICILY - SELINUS Tétradrachme AU
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Estimate : 2 500 €
Price : 1 650 €
Maximum bid : 1 650 €
End of the sale : 15 June 2021 14:06:00
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 450-440 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sélinonte, Sicile
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 17,19 g.
Rarity : R2
Slab
slab NGC
NGC :
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire, centré des deux côtés. Fine usure superficielle. Très joli revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire sous coque NGC, Ch F, Strike 5/5, Surface 5/5

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Artémis et Apollon dans un quadrige à gauche : Artémis tient les rênes des deux mains et Apollon arme son arc d’une flèche.
Obverse legend : SELINO-N-TI-ON.

Reverse


Reverse description : Le dieu-fleuve Sélinos, nu 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 orné d'un coq tourné à gauche ; derrière Sélinos sur une base, timbrée, un taureau tourné à gauche surmonté d'une feuille de sélinon.
Reverse legend : S-ELI-N-O-S.
Reverse translation : (De Sélinonte).

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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