Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 33. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Akragas. Circa 495-480/78 BC. AR Didrachm (8.58 g, 5h). AKRA, sea eagle standing left / Crab; below, Corinthian helmet left; all within shallow incuse circle. Jenkins, Gela, group III, pl. 37, 13 (same rev. die); SNG ANS 947 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 798 (same dies); SNG Ashmolean 1664 (same dies); Jameson 499 (same dies). EF, attractively toned. Perfectly centered and sharply struck on good metal.