Tetradrachm
Features
| Issuer |
Segesta
(Sicily)  |
|---|---|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 415 BC - 410 BC |
| Value | Tetradrachm (20) |
| Currency | Litra |
| Composition | Srebro |
| Weight | 16.37 g |
| Diameter | 24 mm |
| Shape | Okrągły (nieregularny) |
| Technique | Młotkowana |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 466972 |
| References | Lederer Segesta# 1-3 Philipp Lederer; 1910. Die Tetradrachmenprägung von Segesta = The Tetradrachm coinage of Segesta. Kastner & Callwey, Munich, Bavaria, Germany. , HGC 2# 1103 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. 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. |
Obverse
(en) Aegestes, the city's founder, as charioteer, driving slow quadriga right and holding barley ears.
Script: grecki
Lettering: ΣEΓEΣTAZIB
Reverse
(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 herme left, wearing petasus.
Script: grecki
Lettering: EΓEΣTAION
Mint
Segesta, Sicily, ItalyComments
(en)
Rizzo pl. 61, 18-21; Mildenberg, Kimon 14-16.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| ND (415 BC - 410 BC) | 
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$ 13 000 | |||||||||||||
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Past sales
| Pictures | Sale | Date | Grade | Sold price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 114 Lot 62 
|
6 May 2019 | VF |
USD 17 733.01
(CHF 14 000.00) (+ buyer's premium) |
|
| © Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG | |||||
 |
CNG Auction 105 Lot 22
|
10 May 2017 | VF |
USD 7500.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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| © Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. | |||||
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