Selinos, Sicily, crude tourist fake imitating an issue of ca. 450 BC., modern cast ca. 1900-1980 AD., Tetradrachm imitation, cf. SNG ANS 691.
Selinos, Sicily, crude tourist fake imitating an issue of ca. 450 BC., modern cast ca. 1900-1980 AD.,
Tetradrachm imitation (ø 25-26 mm / 13,47 g), cast bronze, axes about coin alignment ↑↓ (ca. 160°), filed and smoothed edge with remaining parts of a casting seam, casting bubbles, soft outlines,
Obv.: [ ΣEΛINO - NTI – OΣ ] (retrograde) , quadriga moving slowly to left, driven by Artemis, who holds the reins, Apollo stands beside her, drawing a bow.
Rev.: [ Σ – EΛI – NO – Σ ] , the river-god Selinos, naked, standing facing left, holding a branch upwards in his left hand, and pouring a philae over an altar with his right, a cockerel stands to left in front of the altar, a selinon leaf above a bull standing facing left on a base on right.
For genuine cions cf. SNG ANS 691 ; - W. Schwabacher, ‘Die Tetradrachmenprägung von Selinut’, MBNG XLIII, 1925, 6 ; - SNG Lloyd 1224 ; - McClean 2576, pl. 88, 3 .
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![Selinos, Sicily, crude tourist fake imitating an issue of ca. 450 BC., modern cast ca. 1900-1980 AD., Tetradrachm imitation, cf. SNG ANS 691.
Selinos, Sicily, crude tourist fake imitating an issue of ca. 450 BC., modern cast ca. 1900-1980 AD.,
Tetradrachm imitation (ø 25-26 mm / 13,47 g), cast bronze, axes about coin alignment ↑↓ (ca. 160°), filed and smoothed edge with remaining parts of a casting seam, casting bubbles, soft outlines,
Obv.: [ ΣEΛINO - NTI – OΣ ] (retrograde) , quadriga moving slowly to left, driven by Artemis, who holds the reins, Apollo stands beside her, drawing a bow.
Rev.: [ Σ – EΛI – NO – Σ ] , the river-god Selinos, naked, standing facing left, holding a branch upwards in his left hand, and pouring a philae over an altar with his right, a cockerel stands to left in front of the altar, a selinon leaf above a bull standing facing left on a base on right.
For genuine cions cf. SNG ANS 691 ; - W. Schwabacher, ‘Die Tetradrachmenprägung von Selinut’, MBNG XLIII, 1925, 6 ; - SNG Lloyd 1224 ; - McClean 2576, pl. 88, 3 .
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Selinos, Sicily, crude tourist fake imitating an issue of ca. 450 BC., modern cast ca. 1900-1980 AD., Tetradrachm imitation, cf. SNG ANS 691.
Selinos, Sicily, crude tourist fake imitating an issue of ca. 450 BC., modern cast ca. 1900-1980 AD.,
Tetradrachm imitation (ø 25-26 mm / 13,47 g), cast bronze, axes about coin alignment ↑↓ (ca. 160°), filed and smoothed edge with remaining parts of a casting seam, casting bubbles, soft outlines,
Obv.: [ ΣEΛINO - NTI – OΣ ] (retrograde) , quadriga moving slowly to left, driven by Artemis, who holds the reins, Apollo stands beside her, drawing a bow.
Rev.: [ Σ – EΛI – NO – Σ ] , the river-god Selinos, naked, standing facing left, holding a branch upwards in his left hand, and pouring a philae over an altar with his right, a cockerel stands to left in front of the altar, a selinon leaf above a bull standing facing left on a base on right.
For genuine cions cf. SNG ANS 691 ; - W. Schwabacher, ‘Die Tetradrachmenprägung von Selinut’, MBNG XLIII, 1925, 6 ; - SNG Lloyd 1224 ; - McClean 2576, pl. 88, 3 .
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