tetradrachm of Segesta, 405-400 BC ca.

Obv. hero Aigestes, 2 hounds at his feet one sniffing, small ithyphallic herm before, EGESTAIWN (according to Franke & Hirmer river-god Krimisos, and from 425/15-409 BC)
Rev. hd nymph Segesta, hair bound in ampyx; SEGESTAZIA. double-struck


16.85 g          P.R. Franke and M. Hirmer (1964, 1972) Die Griechische Münze (no. 203), London


Lederer 6; Mildenberg, "Kimon in the Manner of Segesta", in Proceedings of the 8th
International Congres of Numismatics, pl. 11, 21 (same dies); McClean 2555 (same dies);
Kraay-Hirmer pl. 71, 203 (same dies)



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