‡ Sicily, Eryx/Segesta, bronze hexas, ΣΕΓ[Ε]-ΣΤΑΙΟΝ, head of nymph right, hair in sphendone, rev., dog standing right with head turned back; two encircled pellets, one above, one below, 2.69g, die axis 7.00 (Laffaille 199, this piece but see S. Hurter in her Segesta corpus (2008), p. 143 and pl. 29, B where this coin is said to be a late 5th century issue of Eryx to which has been added the Segesta legend in place ΗΕΞΑΣ, the coin denomination), smoothed and tooled, otherwise extremely fine Provenance: Maurice Laffaille Collection, Münzen und Medaillen 76, 19 September 1991, lot 199; European Connoisseur collection (formed before 2002).

Estimate: GBP 300-500