Tetradrachm of Akragas
ca. 465-440 BCE (Classical)
Diam: 1 1/16 in.; Weight: 0.04 lb. (2.7 cm, 17.33 g)
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The obverse of this silver tetradrachm shows an eagle, standing in profile to the left. Around the body of the eagle, the name of the city of Akragas, Sicily (modern Agrigento) is written in boustrophedon, that is, with lines written in different directions and with reversed l...
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102753
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Sale, Ars Classica XV, Geneva, 2 July 1930, p. 17, lot 268, pl. 9; Richard Cyril Lockett, London, 1930, by purchase [SNG Lockett 692]; Sale, Richard Cyril Lockett Collection II, Glendining and Co., LTD, London, 25 October 1955, p. 74, lot 576, pl. 20; Private Collection, New York, by purchase; Sale, Triton XXV, New York, 11 January 2022, lot 55; Walters Art Museum, 2022, by purchase.
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en
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