Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Akragas (Sicily)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	414 BC - 413 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	17.13 g
Diameter	31 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 180839
References	Kraay&Hirm# 175 Colin Mackennal Kraay, Max Hirmer; 1966. Greek Coins. Thames & Hudson, London, United Kingdom. , Jameson# 509 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , BMC Greek# 61 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , SNG Lloyd# 821 Peter Bagwell Purefoy, Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume II - The Lloyd Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (4 volumes). , Gulbenkian# 166 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (publisher). A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (2 volumes). , McClean# 2043 Sidney W. Grose. Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom (3 volumes). , AMB Basel# 258 Herbert Adolph Cahn, Leo Mildenberg, Roberto Russo, Hans Voegtli; 1988. Griechische Münzen aus Grossgriechenland und Sizilien. Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel, Switzerland. , Pozzi# 389 Naville & Cie (publisher); 1920. Monnaies grecques antiques: Provenant de la collection de feu le prof. S. Pozzi = Ancient Greek coins. Naville & Cie, Luzern, Switzerland.

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Obverse

Two eagles perching right on the body of a dead hare; the nearer, with closed wings, raises his head and screams in triumph. The further, with spread wings, bends his head down to tear at the prey

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΑΚΡΑΓ

Reverse

Crab with open claws seen from above. Below, the monster Skylla swimming to left, her right hand raised to shade her eyes (the so-called aposkopein gesture) and her left trailing behind her. At her waist, between her human torso and her fish tail, the foreparts of two hunting dogs

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΑΚΡΑΓΑΝΤΙΝΟΝ

Mint

Agrigentum, Sicily, modern-day Agrigento, Italy

Comments

SNG ANS -; SNG Copenhagen -; Rizzo pl. 1, 20.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (414 BC - 413 BC)							$ 20 000	$ 240 000

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Examples of the type

BMC Greek (Sicily) p. 12, 61

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Nomos AG Auction 2 Lot 17	18 May 2010	XF	USD 247 380.62 (CHF 195 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Nomos AG
	The New York Sale Auction 14 Lot 26	10 Jan 2007	XF	USD 160 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Sternberg XXXII, 28 October 1996, 6
© The New York Sale
	CNG Triton VIII Lot 56	11 Jan 2005	XF	USD 240 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 8 (3 April 1995), 116; Leu 20 (25-26 April 1978), 20
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Stacks Bowers January 2017 NYINC Auction Lot 2008	12 Jan 2017	VF (NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 4/5)	USD 19 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Stacks Bowers
	Stacks Bowers January 2012 NYINC Auction Lot 72	6 Jan 2012	VF	USD 22 500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Stacks Bowers