SICILY. Segesta. Circa 475/70-455/50 BC. Didrachm or Nomos (Silver, 22 mm, 8.60 g, 8 h). The river-god Krimisos, in the form of a hunting dog, standing right, on the scent.
Rev. ΣECEΣTA 𐤆IBΕΜΙ Head of the nymph Aigeste to right, wearing hairband and with her hair bound up in a krobylos; all within shallow circular incuse. BMC 5 = ACGC 847 (
same dies). HGC 2, 1114. Hurter 30c (
this coin, V7/R18). N. K. Rutter, The Mysterious Segestans, in: Pour Denyse, Divertissements Numismatiques, 2000, pl. 20, 3 (
this coin). SNG Lockett 850 (
this coin). SNG München 838 (
same dies). Nicely toned and with an illustrious pedigree. Slightly rough and with minor areas of horn silver and light marks
, otherwise, very fine.
From the collection of Dr. med. Cora Flinsch (1920-2022), ex Sternberg XXIX, 30-31 October 1995, 37 and Spink & Son 108, 7 March 1995, 8, from the collection of R. C. Lockett, Glendining, 25 October 1955, 733, and from the collections of Prof. S. Pozzi, Naville I, 4 April 1921, 521 and A. Rhousopoulos, Hirsch XIII, 15 May 1905, 361.
