Didrachm

Features

Issuer	Akragas (Sicily)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	495 BC - 485 BC
Value	Didrachm (2)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	8.87 g
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 393178
References	Westermark Akragas# 172-173 Ulla Westermark; 2018. The Coinage of Akragas c. 510–406 BC. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (2 volumes). , SNG Lockett# 701 Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Richard Cyril Lockett. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume III - The Lockett Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). , SNG ANS 3# 939-940 Hyla A. Troxell; 1975. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Collection of the American Numismatic Society / Part 3. Bruttium-Sicily 1 (Abacaenum-Eryx). American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States.

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Obverse

Eagle standing left, with folded wings.

Script: Greek

Lettering: AKRA

Reverse

Crab with claws raised.

Mint

Agrigentum, Sicily, modern-day Agrigento, Italy

Comments

C. Boehringer, Der spätarchaische Münzfund von Comiso 1970 in SNR 89, 2010, 32.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (495 BC - 485 BC)								$ 3700

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Gorny & Mosch Auction 306 Lot 51	15 Oct 2024	XF	USD 2191.98 (EUR 1900.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Gorny & Mosch GmbH Giessener Münzhandlung
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 138 Lot 45	18 May 2023	XF	USD 8787.93 (CHF 7000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex SBV 5, 1979, 58; Leu 72, 1998, 58
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Künker Auction 376 Lot 4294	18 Oct 2022	XF	USD 3691.76 (EUR 3200.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg
	Gorny & Mosch Auction 261 Lot 57	4 Mar 2019	XF	USD 3230.29 (EUR 2800.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Gorny & Mosch GmbH Giessener Münzhandlung