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Didrachm of Segesta with hound
Greek
Early Classical Period
480–460 B.C.
Mint: Sicily, Segesta
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 20 mm. Weight: 8.70 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.475
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0311.
DescriptionObverse: Dog standing to right on dotted line, head lowered.
Beaded border.
Reverse: Head of nymph Segesta to right; band in hair composed of row of circles between plain lines, a part of the hair drawn up and hanging out over band; similar row of circles between plain lines make up her necklace.
Inscription in Greek.
Plain border.
Round incuse.
Beaded border.
Reverse: Head of nymph Segesta to right; band in hair composed of row of circles between plain lines, a part of the hair drawn up and hanging out over band; similar row of circles between plain lines make up her necklace.
Inscription in Greek.
Plain border.
Round incuse.
Provenance1897: Cat. Sotheby, July 6, 1897, lot 163 (according to Brett, Catalogue, no. 311); by date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 279); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren