SICILY. Segesta. Ca. 405-400 BC. AR tetradrachm (27mm, 17.00 gm, 7h). NGC XF 3/5 - 4/5, Fine Style, die shift. ΕΓΕΣΤΑΙΩΝ, the hero Aegestes standing right, nude but for chlamys draped over left arm, pileus slung over left shoulder, strap over right shoulder, two javelins in left hand resting on left shoulder, resting left foot on rock; two hounds standing right at his feet, one sniffing the ground, small ithyphallic herm left before / ΣΕΓΕΣΤΑΞΙΑ, head of the nymph Segesta right, wearing triple pendant earring and necklace with pendants, hair bound in ampyx and star embroidered saccos; barley stalk left below. Lederer 6. Mildenberg, "Kimon in the Manner of Segesta," in Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Numismatics, pl. 11, 21 (same dies). McClean 2555 (same dies). Kraay-Hirmer pl. 71, 203 (same dies). From the Penn Collection. Ex Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 296

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