CLASSICAL COINS
SICILY
SELINUS
Tetradrachm, about 440-430 BC. AR 16.83 g. Apollo and Artemis, standing side by side in slow quadriga r.; Apollo, nude to waist, holding bow, Artemis holding the reins; in exergue, grain of corn. Rev. SELI - NONTI - ON Youth, nude river god Selinos standing l., holding large laurel branch with his l. hand, patera in his outstretched r. hand; in front of him, cock in front of burning altar, in field r., leaf of celery over bull standing l. on a square basis. W. Schwabacher, Die Tetradrachmen­prägung von Selinunt, MBNG XLIII (1925),20,34 (these dies). SNG ANS 700.
Rare . Large flan. Good very fine Provenance: Auction NGSA 5 (2008), 38.