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Very Rare Akragas Tetradrachm

394, Lot: 100. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Akragas. Circa 420-410 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.53 g, 5h). Sea eagle, wings raised, standing right on, and tearing at, dead hare set on rocks; AKPAΓ-ANTIN-ON around / Crab, flanked by scallop and [conch] shells, above grouper left. HGC 2, 81 (same dies as illustration); SNG ANS 985; BMC 59–60 (same dies); Gulbenkian 163–4 (same dies); Rizzo pl. I, 16. VF, toned, some roughness. Artistic dies. Very rare, none in CoinArchives.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Sotheby’s (24 April 1997), lot 362.