Didrachm

Features

Issuer Segesta (Sicily)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 475 BC - 450 BC
Value Didrachm (10)
Currency Litra
Composition Silver
Weight 8.56 g
Diameter 22.0 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered, incuse
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
168850
References SNG Munich 1# 814,
Peter Robert Franke, Harald Küthmann; 1968. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Deutschland / Heft 1. Hispania - Gallia Narbonensis : Staatliche Münzsammlung München. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
SNG Fitzwilliam# 1137
Fritz Heichelheim; 1940. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain) / Volume 4.1. The Fitzwilliam Museum. Leake and General Collections : Spain (Emporiae, Rhoda) - Italy. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom.
And 7 more volumes.

Obverse

Hound standing left with a barley grain above

Reverse

Head of the nymph Segesta right, hair in band, wearing necklace and hoop earring with single pendant, enclosed in linear circle; retrograde ΣECEΣTAZIB around; all within incuse circle

Script: Greek

Mint

Segesta, Sicily, Italy

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Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold Didrachm
Numismatica Ars Classica
Auction 126
Lot 30
Internet Archive
17 Nov 2021 VF USD 9937.49
(CHF 9000.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
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