Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 263. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Akragas. Circa 420-406 BC. Æ Hemilitron (23.17 g, 1h). Eagle, wings displayed, standing right on hare / Crab; six pellets (mark of value) above; below, hippocamp right. Westermark, Fifth, issue 1; CNS 19/1 (same obv. die); SNG ANS 1022-3. VF, dark green patina with patches of red, some smoothing.

From the J. Olphin Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions XX (25 March 1992), lot 336.

Interesting engraver’s error on obverse, where the P was initially left out of the ethnic, and then corrected.