v45_0019 - SICILY - AKRAGAS Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 45 (2010)
Starting price : 2 200.00 €
Estimate : 4 500.00 €
Realised price : 2 200.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 3 300.00 €
Starting price : 2 200.00 €
Estimate : 4 500.00 €
Realised price : 2 200.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 3 300.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 450 AC.
Mint name / Town : Sicile, Agrigente
Metal : silver
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 17,27 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire sur un petit flan, parfaitement centré sur le crabe, décentré légèrement sur le tête de l’aigle. Au droit, toutes les plumes de l’aile sont visibles et distinctes. Au revers, le crabe est d’une qualité exceptionnelle. Servi par une jolie patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Ars Classica AG, I, 19 mai 1999, n° 1130 et de MONNAIES 36, n° 31
Obverse
Obverse description : Aigle debout à gauche.
Obverse legend : AKRAG/ANTOS
Obverse translation : (des Acragantains).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Crabe vu de dessus.
Commentary
La forme non rétrograde des lettres semble beaucoup plus rare et ne se rencontre que pour très peu d’exemplaires (ANS. 968, pl. 28) sans pouvoir distinguer une liaison de coin. Sur cet exemplaire toutes les plumes de l’aigle sont identifiables ainsi que la morphologie du crabe au revers.
The non-retrograde form of the letters seems much rarer and is found only in very few examples (ANS. 968, pl. 28) without being able to distinguish a corner link. On this example all the feathers of the eagle are identifiable as well as the morphology of the crab on the reverse
The non-retrograde form of the letters seems much rarer and is found only in very few examples (ANS. 968, pl. 28) without being able to distinguish a corner link. On this example all the feathers of the eagle are identifiable as well as the morphology of the crab on the reverse
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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