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Selinos. Herakles and Cretan Bull Didrachm.
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Greek Sicily. Selinos. 417-409 BC. AR Didrachm (7.86 gm, 23.7mm, 6h). Herakles brandishing club and grasping charging Cretan bull, right. ΣΕΛΙ-ΝΟΤ-ΙΟͶ (inwards). / River god Hypsas, holding phiale to l. and lustral branch, pouring libation over alter entwined by snake, selinon leaf to r. over crane, ΗΥΨ-ΑΣ above. VF. Bt. Gables Coin, 1999. ex-Ars Classica XVI (3 July 1933) #642. Same dies: SNG ANS 4 #702; Gulbenkian I #246. Same obv. die: SNG ANS 4 #703-705; Rizzo pl. 31 #16; Babelon de Luynes #113; SNG Lloyd 1261-1262. SNG Cop 1 (Sicily) #601; HGC 2 #1224.
Selinus had earlier been named Heraclea Minoa, and the bull could be a canting reference to that period. The bull could also be a reference to the river god Hypsas.
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![Selinos. Herakles and Cretan Bull Didrachm.
Greek Sicily. Selinos. 417-409 BC. AR Didrachm (7.86 gm, 23.7mm, 6h). Herakles brandishing club and grasping charging Cretan bull, right. ΣΕΛΙ-ΝΟΤ-ΙΟͶ (inwards). / River god Hypsas, holding phiale to l. and lustral branch, pouring libation over alter entwined by snake, selinon leaf to r. over crane, ΗΥΨ-ΑΣ above. VF. Bt. Gables Coin, 1999. ex-Ars Classica XVI (3 July 1933) #642. Same dies: SNG ANS 4 #702; Gulbenkian I #246. Same obv. die: SNG ANS 4 #703-705; Rizzo pl. 31 #16; Babelon de Luynes #113; SNG Lloyd 1261-1262. SNG Cop 1 (Sicily) #601; HGC 2 #1224.
[i]Selinus had earlier been named Heraclea Minoa, and the bull could be a canting reference to that period. The bull could also be a reference to the river god Hypsas.[/i]](albums/userpics/49243/normal_Sicily_Selinus_SNG-ANS4_702_gf.jpg "Click to view full size image
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Selinos. Herakles and Cretan Bull Didrachm.
Greek Sicily. Selinos. 417-409 BC. AR Didrachm (7.86 gm, 23.7mm, 6h). Herakles brandishing club and grasping charging Cretan bull, right. ΣΕΛΙ-ΝΟΤ-ΙΟͶ (inwards). / River god Hypsas, holding phiale to l. and lustral branch, pouring libation over alter entwined by snake, selinon leaf to r. over crane, ΗΥΨ-ΑΣ above. VF. Bt. Gables Coin, 1999. ex-Ars Classica XVI (3 July 1933) #642. Same dies: SNG ANS 4 #702; Gulbenkian I #246. Same obv. die: SNG ANS 4 #703-705; Rizzo pl. 31 #16; Babelon de Luynes #113; SNG Lloyd 1261-1262. SNG Cop 1 (Sicily) #601; HGC 2 #1224.
[i]Selinus had earlier been named Heraclea Minoa, and the bull could be a canting reference to that period. The bull could also be a reference to the river god Hypsas.[/i]")
