★ Well pedigreed and Westermark Plate Coin ★

SICILY. Akragas. Circa 415-406 BC. Hemilitron (Bronze, 26 mm, 14.03 g, 11 h). Eagle standing right with dead hare in its talons. Rev. Crab; below, hippocamp to left; around, six pellets (mark of value). Westermark pl. 58, 795.5 ( this coin ). An attractive example with a fine pedigree. Minor smoothing on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine.

From a German collection, ex Peus 395, 7 May 2008, 43 (with original ticket), Monetarium FPL 51, spring 1989, 14, Schweizerische Kreditanstalt 7, 27-29 April 1987, 483, 1, 22-23 April 1983, 48 and FPL 38, April 1982, 38.