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Tetradrachm of Akragas (Agrigentum) with eagle and hare
Greek
Classical Period
about 420–405 B.C.
Mint: Sicily, Akragas (Agrigentum)
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 30 mm. Weight: 17.00 gm.
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number04.431
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0235.
DescriptionObverse: Eagle standing left with wings raised, head lowered to attack, on dead hare lying left, upside down on rocks, on which corn grain horizontally and scallop shell left.
Inscription in Greek.
Border of dots.
Reverse: Crab.
Below, fish (gurnard) horizontally left, with mouth open and spiny back; left, scallop shell downwards; right, shell of purple-fish (murex).
Inscription in Greek.
Border of dots.
Reverse: Crab.
Below, fish (gurnard) horizontally left, with mouth open and spiny back; left, scallop shell downwards; right, shell of purple-fish (murex).
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Canon Greenwell Collection; July 1902: acquired from Canon Greenwell Collection by Edward Perry Warren (Regling, Die Griechischen Münzen der Sammlung Warren, no. 201); September 1904: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren