Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 56. Closing Date: Jan 
10, 2005. SICILY, Akragas. Circa 414-413 BC. AR 
Tetradrachm (17.25 gm, 5h). Estimate $200000 
Sold For $240000 

SICILY, Akragas. Circa 414-413 BC. AR Tetradrachm 
(17.25 gm, 5h). A-K-R-A-G around a pair of eagles 
standing right on the upturned body of a dead 
hare; the nearer eagle, with closed wings, 
screaming with its head reared and beak wide open; 
the further, flapping its wings and lowering its 
head to tear at the prey / AKRA-G-A-NTIN-[ON] 
around a crab with open claws seen from above; 
below, Skylla swimming left, her right hand raised 
to shade her eyes, left arm trailing behind, and 
her hair streaming in the wind. C. Seltman, "The 
Engravers of the Akragantine Decadrachms," NC 
1948, pl. I, ii (same dies); SNG ANS -; SNG 
Copenhagen -; BMC Sicily pg. 12, 61 (same dies); 
SNG Lloyd 821 (same dies); Rizzo pl. 1, 20 (same 
dies); Gulbenkian 166 (same dies); Jameson 509 
(same dies); Pozzi 389 (same dies); McClean 2043 
(same dies); Basel 258 = Kraay & Hirmer pl. 60, 
175 (same dies). Superb EF with light cabinet 
toning. A masterpiece of the engraver's art. 
Extremely rare, the finest specimen of 
approximately a dozen known. ($200,000)

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 8 (3 April 1995), 116; 
Leu 20 (25-26 April 1978), 20.

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