Selinunt

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Events

Created

When	435-415 BC [About]
Where	Selinunte

Owned

Who	Ernst Justus Haeberlin (1847-1925)

Sold

Who	Adolph Hess Nachfolger (Frankfurt am Main)

Relation to places

Italy

Keywords

1/2 Litra (Hemilitra) Bronze City Classical antiquity Coin Klassik Mythical creature

Description

Front: Kopf der Medusa Gorgo mit ausgestreckter Zunge in der Vorderansicht.
Rear: Kopf der Medusa Gorgo mit ausgestreckter Zunge in der Vorderansicht.

Material/Technique

Bronze; cast

Measurements

Diameter: 22 mm
Weight: 16.20 g

Literature

C. Arnold-Biucchi, Some new cast bronze coins from Selinus at the ANS, in: Italiam Fato Profugi. Numismatic studies dedicated to V. and E. Clain-Stefanelli (1996) 9 f. (450-440 v. Chr.).
E. J. Haeberlin, Aes Grave. Das Schwergeld Roms und Mittelitaliens (1910) 172 Nr. 1 b,1 (dieses Stück).
M. J. Price, Selinus, in: Le origini della monetazione di bronzo in Sicilia e in Magna Grecia. Atti del IV convegno del centro internazionale di studi numismatici 1977 (1979) 81 I (Serie I, 435-415 v. Chr.).