Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Didrachm
| Issuer | Segesta |
|---|---|
| Year | 412 BC - 400 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Greek |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A hound, rendered in fine detail, strides or leaps to the right across a ground line, depicted in a naturalistic style typical of Sicilian coinage of this period. Above and behind the hound rises a stylised flowering plant or aquatic vegetation, likely representing the marshy landscape sacred to the local nymph cult, with radiating fronds and floral elements filling the upper field. A beaded border follows the irregular flan edge. The composition reflects the Segestan civic iconography closely tied to the local springs and the legend of the nymph Segesta. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | ΕΓΕΣΤΑIOИ |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information | Log in to see details |