Watch List notes:

Akragas, tetradrachm, c. 410-406 BC, charioteer driving fast quadriga right, with robes billowing out behind; above, Nike flies left with wreath; in ex., crab swimming downwards, rev., ΑΚΡΑΓΑΝΤΙΝΩΝ (retrograde), two eagles standing right clutching a dead hare in their talons, the closest eagle with closed wings and head erect, the furthest with open wings and head poised to tear at the hare, 17.23g, die axis 3.00 (Westermark 588; Seltman [N.C. 1948] 6, these dies; Jameson 1889, same dies; Kraay/Hirmer 178, same dies; Rizzo pl. II, 1 = de Hirsch 288, same dies), toned, extremely fine and very rare. Provenance: Tkalec auction, 9 May 2005, lot 14; David Freedman collection; Roma VII, 22 March 2014, lot 86. This tetradrachm as well as its gold equivalent in the following lot are testament to the flowering of numismatic art in Sicily at the end of the 5th century BC. Akragas was destroyed by the Carthaginians in 406 BC but in the years leading up to this event its coinage underwent a renaissance producing classical masterpieces with innovative designs. One of the reverse dies of this series bears the abbreviated signature of Poly... (Polyainos?) and it is tempting to see his influence, if not his hand in the present coin's dramatic reverse. As Carradice and Price have observed (in Coinage of the Greek World) "This composition illustrates the Greeks' ability to observe nature and to record it with great accuracy and feeling"
(40000-60000 GBP)