Ex Arnaud and Laffaille Collections

365, Lot: 27. Estimate $150. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Akragas. Circa 400-380 BC. Æ Hemilitron (26.5mm, 16.27 g, 1h). Horned head of young river god Akragas left, wearing tainia / Eagle standing left, head right, on Ionic capital; crab to left, six pellets to right. Westermark, Fifth, pl. IV, 8; CNS 89; HGC 2, 139; Laffaille 126 (this coin). Near VF, dark green patina, smoothed.

Ex Chaponnière & Hess-Divo 1 (18 May 2010), lot 31; Pierre Arnaud Collection (Hess-Divo 307, 8 June 2007), lot 1043; Maurice Laffaille Collection (Münzen und Medaillen AG 76, 19 September 1991), lot 126.