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365, Lot: 571. Estimate $100.
Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELECTROTYPES, SICILY. Akragas. Circa 409-406 BC. AR “Tetradrachm” (26mm, 14.07 g). British Museum electrotype by Robert Ready (marked RR on edge). Signed by the magistrate Straton. Nike driving fast quadriga right; above, grape vine and grape cluster / Two eagles standing left on dead hare lying on rock, the nearer of the two raising its head, the other devouring hare; head of a horned river-god behind; ΣTPATΩN above. Head, CPCG, pl. 14, 26 (”this coin”); Copy of Seltman, "The Engravers of the Akragantine Decadrachms", NumChron 1948, pg. 4, 12 (dies H/l). As made, attractively toned.