bgr_350321 - SICILY - AKRAGAS Trias
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Price : 750.00 €
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Price : 750.00 €
Type : Trias
Date: c. 450 AC.
Mint name / Town : Agrigente, Sicile
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 19,38 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan oblong et épais coulé. Bien venu des deux côtés. Très belle patine verte
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection d’Élisabeth
Obverse
Obverse description : Aigle debout à gauche, les ailes repliées.
Obverse legend : AK
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Crabe vu de face.
Commentary
Monnayage coulé de forme oblongue et pyramidale avec une section ovale. Il a été fabriqué au début de la deuxième moitié du Ve siècle avant J.-C. Marque de valeur, quatre globules sur la tranche pour 4 onkiai, tetronkion ou trias. Notre exemplaire semble épigraphe au droit avec un K majuscule peut-être précédé d’une autre lettre (A) non visible qui constitueraient alors les initiales de l’ethnique de la cité (AK pour Akragas). Pour ce type, G. Buceti (MSTSG. 53) a recensé vingt-huit exemplaires avec des poids compris entre 10,73 g et 16,61 g.
Cast coinage of oblong and pyramidal shape with an oval section. It was made at the beginning of the second half of the 5th century BC. Mark of value, four globules on the edge for 4 onkiai, tetronkion or trias. Our example seems to be epigraphed on the obverse with a capital K perhaps preceded by another letter (A) not visible which would then constitute the initials of the ethnic group of the city (AK for Akragas). For this type, G. Buceti (MSTSG. 53) identified twenty-eight examples with weights between 10.73 g and 16.61 g
Cast coinage of oblong and pyramidal shape with an oval section. It was made at the beginning of the second half of the 5th century BC. Mark of value, four globules on the edge for 4 onkiai, tetronkion or trias. Our example seems to be epigraphed on the obverse with a capital K perhaps preceded by another letter (A) not visible which would then constitute the initials of the ethnic group of the city (AK for Akragas). For this type, G. Buceti (MSTSG. 53) identified twenty-eight examples with weights between 10.73 g and 16.61 g
Historical background
SICILY - AKRAGAS
(6th - 5th century BC)
Agrigento was founded in the 6th century BC by settlers from Gela. It was one of the most beautiful and prosperous cities on the southern coast of Sicily. The city was a few kilometers from the sea at the confluence of two rivers, Akragas and Hypsas. Coinage seems to begin around 550 BC.. -VS. under the domination of the tyrant Phlaris. Theron, tyrant of Agrigento, captured Himera in 482 BC. -VS. The latter and Gelon of Syracuse won a brilliant victory over the Carthaginians at Himera in 480 BC.. -VS. who loosened the vice that Carthage imposed on the island. After Theron's death in 472 BC. -VS. , Democracy was restored. In 413 BC. -VS. , Agrigento was rather favorable to the Athenians against the Syracusans. The city was destroyed in 406 BC. -VS. , during the Carthaginian invasion. It was nevertheless rebuilt, but did not regain its former splendor.. The city found itself caught in the conflict between the Carthaginians and the Romans during the first two Punics (261-241 BC).. -VS. and 221-201 BC. -VS. ). The Romans captured Agrigento in 210 BC. -VS. , during the conquest of Sicily.
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