Description:

Greece, Sicily, ca. 478 to 470 BCE. Obv: standing eagle and text. Rev: crab. Size: 0.9" W (2.3 cm); 8.2 grams

With delightful animal imagery relating to the sea, this is a relatively rare coin find. Akragas, today Agrigento, Italy, overlooks the sea, protected by a ridge to its north. Greek colonists established the city ca. 580 BCE and it became a prosperous and large (at one point it may have had over 100,000 inhabitants) city, one of the most famous in Magna Graecia. When this coin was made, it was a functioning democracy and trade state, and would remain so until it was sacked by the Carthaginians in 406 BCE.

Provenance: private New York, USA collection

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  • Condition: Nice tone VF condition.

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