294, Lot: 25. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Akragas. Circa 510-500 BC. AR Didrachm (19mm, 8.64 g, 5h). Eagle standing left / Crab. Jenkins, Gela, Group I; SNG ANS 917 var. (division of ethnic); SNG Ashmolean –; SNG München –; BMC –; C. Boehringer, “Der spätarchaische Münzfund von Comiso 1970” in SNR 89 (2010), 17. Good Fine, deeply toned, old scratch above eagle. Very rare.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection.