v43_0019 - SICILY - AKRAGAS Litra
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
Realised price : 180.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 180.00 €
Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
Realised price : 180.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 180.00 €
Type : Litra
Date: c. 450 AC.
Mint name / Town : Agrigente
Metal : silver
Diameter : 9,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 0,65 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. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LÉGENDE PARTIELLEMENT RÉTROGRADE.
Obverse description : Aigle debout à gauche.
Obverse legend : AK/RA
Obverse translation : (d’Agrigente).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Crabe vu de dessus.
Reverse legend : LI
Commentary
Poids léger. 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.
Lightweight. On small fractional coins, it is sometimes very difficult to establish a relevant die bond. On the reverse, the two Greek letters stand for litra.
Lightweight. On small fractional coins, it is sometimes very difficult to establish a relevant die bond. On the reverse, the two Greek letters stand for 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.
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