Watch List notes:

SICILY, Akragas. Circa 510-500 BC. AR Didrachm (21mm, 8.44 g, 6h). Sea eagle standing left; retrograde AKRAC-ANTOΣ around / Crab. Jenkins, Gela, Group Ia, pl. 37, 1 (same dies); HGC 2, 87 (same dies as illustration); Cosimo 4 (same dies); SNG ANS 906–7 var. (ethnic); SNG Lloyd 786 (same dies); Dewing 548–9 var. (same). Good VF, attractively toned, small inconsequential pit and scratches on reverse. From the earliest issue of coinage at Akragas.


Ex Vinchon (27 February 1961), lot 50; Naville IV (17 June 1922), lot 200.