bgr_260927 - SICILY - AKRAGAS Litra

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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 175.00 €

Type : Litra

Date: c. 450 AC.

Mint name / Town : Agrigente

Metal : silver

Diameter : 10 mm

Orientation dies : 10 h.

Weight : 0,60 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés avec le grènetis visibles au droit. Aigle bien venu à la frappe. Très joli crabe au revers. Patine gris foncé légèrement granuleuse

Catalogue references :

ANS.992 - MIAMG.3833 (750€) - P.- - Jameson- - Cop.- - Delepierre- - B. traité - BMC.50 - GC.746

Obverse

Obverse legend : LÉGENDE PARTIELLEMENT RÉTROGRADE.

Obverse description : Aigle debout à gauche.

Obverse legend : AKR/AGA.

Obverse translation : (d’Agrigente).

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Reverse description : Crabe vu de dessus.

Reverse legend : IL.

Commentary

Poids léger. Argent cristallisé. Sur des petites monnaies divisionnaires, il est parfois très difficile d’établir une liaison de coin pertinente. Au revers les deux lettres grecques sont pour litra.

Historical background

SICILY - AKRAGAS

(472-413 BC)

Agrigento was founded in the 6th century BC by settlers from Gela. The coinage seems to begin around 550 BC. Theron, tyrant of Agrigento, seized Himera in 482 BC. The latter and Gelon of Syracuse won a brilliant victory over the Carthaginians at Himera in 480 before J. - C. which made release the vice which Carthage made weigh on the island. After Theron's death in 472 BC, Democracy was restored. In 413, Agrigento, was rather favorable to the Athenians against the Syracusans. The city was destroyed during the Carthaginian invasion of 406 BC. It was nevertheless rebuilt, but did not regain its former glory. The Romans captured Agrigento in 210 BC, during the conquest of Sicily.