From the Moretti Collection
342, Lot: 41. Estimate $500. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Akragas. Circa 450-440 BC. Cast Æ Trias or Tetronkion (18.5mm, 16.04 g). Eagle standing left / Crab. Four pellets (mark of value) on base. Westermark,
Fifth pl. I, 1; CNS 1; HGC 2, 126; SNG ANS 1016; SNG Lloyd 832; Basel 256 (this coin); Virzi 551–3. Good VF, dark green patina. Exceptional for issue.
From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Athos D. Moretti Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998), lot 256.