SELINUS SILVER DIDRACHM – EXKOMMERZIENRAT OTTO COLLECTION SOLD IN 1931 – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK SICILY PROVENANCED COIN (Inv. 21192)

$1,500.00

21192. SICILY. SELINUS. Ca. 540–480 BC.
Silver Didrachm, 7.87 g, 21 mm. Issue of ca. 540–515 BC.
Obv. Selinon leaf. Rev. Incuse square with seven triangular partitions.
Arnold–Biucchi, “The beginnings of coinage in the West: Archaic Selinus,” in Florilegium numismaticum: studia in honorem U. Westermark edita, figs. 4–5; HGC 2, 1210.
Ex Kommerzienrat H. Otto, Adolph Hess 207, 12/1/1931, lot 156.
NGC CHOICE VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5, a specimen with an attractive broad planchet.

Heinrich Otto was a German industrialist specializing in textiles. He was awarded the honorary title “Kommerzienrat” by the German Reich as was the custom for persons of this rank. His coin collection was sold by Adolph Hess in 1931 after his passing earlier that year. We also feature in this catalogue a superb Archaic period Athenian tetradrachm from Otto’s collection.