SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-440 BC. AR Didrachm (22mm, 8.27 g, 5h). Herakles standing right, holding club overhead, preparing to strike the Cretan Bull, standing right, which he holds by a horn / River god Hypsas standing left, holding branch and phiale from which he sacrifices over serpent-entwined altar to left; to right, selinon leaf above heron walking right. HGC 2, 1224; SNG ANS 704 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1261–2 (same dies); Dieudonné 159 (same dies); Gillet 495 (same obv. die); Kraay & Hirmer 187 (same obv. die); Rizzo pl. XXXI, 16 (same obv. die). Toned, struck with worn obverse die, light roughness, light scratches and marks. VF.

Ex Pegasi XXIV (5 April 2011), lot 56.


Closing Date and Time: 20 April 2022 at 10:11:20 ET.