Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Segesta (Sicily)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	405 BC - 400 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (20)
Currency	Litra
Composition	Srebro
Weight	16.29 g
Diameter	27 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 387415
References	Lederer Segesta# 5-6 Philipp Lederer; 1910. Die Tetradrachmenprägung von Segesta = The Tetradrachm coinage of Segesta. Kastner & Callwey, Munich, Bavaria, Germany. , BMC Greek# 32 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , HGC 2# 1108 Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. Handbook of Coins of Sicily (Including Lipara) / Volume 2: Civic, Royal, Siculo-Punic, and Romano-Sicilian Issues : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. , Buceti# 88 Giuseppe Buceti; 2010. Monete, storia e topografia della Sicilia greca. Plectica, Messina, Italy. , SNG ANS 4# 646 Eva Jaunzems; 1977. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Collection of the American Numismatic Society / Part 4. Sicily 2 (Galaria-Styella). American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , Kraay&Hirm# 203-204 Colin Mackennal Kraay, Max Hirmer; 1966. Greek Coins. Thames & Hudson, London, United Kingdom. , Hurter Segesta# T7-T9 Silvia Mani Hurter; 2008. Die Didrachmenprägung von Segesta: mit einem Anhang der Hybriden, Teilstücke und Tetradrachmen sowie mit einem Überblick über die Bronzeprägung = The didrachm coinage of Segesta. Société suisse de numismatique = Schweizerische Numismatische Gesellschaft, Bern, Switzerland. , Hirsch# 523 Paul Naster; 1959. La collection Lucien de Hirsch. Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium (2 volumes). , McClean# 2555 Sidney W. Grose. Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom (3 volumes). , Regling Kunstwerk# 567 Kurt Regling; 1924. Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk = The ancient coin as a work of art. Berlin, Germany.

Obverse

(en) Aegestes, the city's founder, as hunter, standing right with left foot upon rock, right hand resting on hip, left elbow on knee; he wears a pilos suspended behind the neck, sword hanging from strap around left shoulder, ankle-boots (cothurni) and chlamys over left arm; two javelins in left hand. At his feet, two hounds right and in right field, ithyphallic herm left, wearing petasus.

Script: grecki

Lettering: EΓE ΣTAIΩN

Reverse

(en) Head of the nymph Segesta right, wearing earring and necklace, hair caught in amphyx and sphendone. Behind head, ear of barley.

Script: grecki

Lettering: ΣΕΛΕ – ΣΤΑZΙA

Mint

Segesta, Sicily, Italy

Comments

(en)

Rizzo pl. LXII, 13-14; Mildenberg, Kimon in the manner of Segesta in Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Numismatics, Paris, 1973, pl. 11, 20-21.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (405 BC - 400 BC)								$ 36 000

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Nomos AG Auction 32 Lot 359	8 Jun 2024	XF	USD 30 490.48 (CHF 24 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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	Nomos AG Auction 27 Lot 1040	22 May 2023	XF	USD 82 578.38 (CHF 65 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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	Roma Numismatics Auction XXV Lot 115	22 Sep 2022	XF	USD 34 993.18 (GBP 26 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Roma Numismatics Limited
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 126 Lot 31	17 Nov 2021	XF	USD 33 031.35 (CHF 26 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 114 Lot 63	6 May 2019	XF	USD 88 930.56 (CHF 70 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 78 Lot 213	26 May 2014	XF	USD 95 282.74 (CHF 75 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Roma Numismatics Auction 2 Lot 52	2 Oct 2011	XF	USD 25 571.94 (GBP 19 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Roma Numismatics Limited
	CNG Auction 129 Lot 56	13 May 2025	VF	USD 13 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.