v18_0020 - SICILY - AKRAGAS Tétradrachme
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 2 500.00 €
Estimate : 3 800.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 2 500.00 €
Estimate : 3 800.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: c. 450 AC.
Mint name / Town : Agrigente
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 15,41 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire pour ce monnayage. Joli revers avec une patine de médaillier. Exemplaire frappé sur un flan large et complet, bien centré des deux côtés. Argent légèrement corné au droit
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection G, Bourgey, 5 décembre 1932, n° 64 et de la collection Deglatigny, Feuardent, 16 et 17 novembre 1937, n° 32 (1280 francs +20% frais)
Obverse
Obverse description : Aigle debout à droite.
Obverse legend : AKRAGA/ NTOS
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Crabe vu de dessus.
Commentary
Poids léger. Cet exemplaire semble manquer aux principaux ouvrages consultés et constitue une variante rare du monnayage akragantin.
Historical background
SICILY - AKRAGAS
(472-413 BC)
Agrigento was founded in the 6th century BC by settlers from Gela. The coinage seems to begin around 550 BC. Theron, tyrant of Agrigento, seized Himera in 482 BC. The latter and Gelon of Syracuse won a brilliant victory over the Carthaginians at Himera in 480 before J. - C. which made release the vice which Carthage made weigh on the island. After Theron's death in 472 BC, Democracy was restored. In 413, Agrigento, was rather favorable to the Athenians against the Syracusans. The city was destroyed during the Carthaginian invasion of 406 BC. It was nevertheless rebuilt, but did not regain its former glory. The Romans captured Agrigento in 210 BC, during the conquest of Sicily.
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