Image rights: wildwinds.com Akragas, Sicily, AE cast tetras, (4.32g) early 5th century BC, tooth-shaped cast bronze, perhaps a weight, Eagle's head left. Crab's claw. Sometimes referred to as the first bronze coin, this issue may have been used as a weight, not a coin. Soon afterwards, bronze coinage displaced the use of tiny silver fractions. Hoover 130: Westermark 1979, 4