Westermark Plate Coin – Pedigreed to 1970

5647826.

SOLD $14750

SICILY, Akragas. Circa 495-485 BC. AR Didrachm (20mm, 8.87 g, 2h). Sea eagle standing left; AKRA to right / Crab, viewed from above, within incuse circle. Westermark, Coinage, Period I, Group II, 172.3 (O69/R116) = Comiso 32 (this coin, illustrated in both); HGC 2, 94; SNG ANS 940 (same obv. die); Ars Classica XVI, lot 419 (same dies). Lovely deep iridescent tone, a few edge scratches, slightly off center on obverse. EF.

Ex Leu 72 (12 May 1998), lot 58; Schweizerischer Bankverein 5 (17 October 1979), lot 58; 1970 Comiso Hoard (CH I 10).