Ancients => Onk-Onk-Onk!! => Sicily Akragas Onkia

Well, how 'bout we see a few more Onkias, eh?

Here are a couple of examples just outside of Akragas ... Sicily, Selinos


AE Cast, One Onkia
Circa 450-440 BC
Diameter: 15 mm
Weight: 4.14 grams
Obverse: Kantharos; pellet (mark of value) above
Reverse: Selinon leaf
Reference: Price, Selinus, Group IIIC; CNS 10; Puglisi 282; HGC 2, 1237
Other: 12h … dark green patina





AE Cast, Tetras (3 Onkia)
Circa 450-440 BC
Diameter: 21 mm
Weight: 11.64 grams
Obverse: Facing Gorgoneion
Reverse: Selinon leaf; three pellets around
Reference: Price, Selinus, Group IIB; CNS 3 (Trias); Thurlow & Vecchi 310; SNG Morcom –; SNG ANS –; SNG Lloyd –; HGC 2, 1232
Other: 12h … dark green patina
From the L.C. Aes Grave Collection

 

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Ummm, does anybody else have any Onkia examples?

... or maybe Eagles? (anybody feel like getting their Eagle on?)

 

Love u2

 

EAGLES!


Moesia Istros AR Drachm 19mm 5.9g 4th C BCE Facing male hds inverted - Sea Eagle dolphin K Rausch 19 17


Makedon Amyntas III 393-369 BC Herakles lion skin Eagle Serpent SNG ANS 100ff


RR Anon AE Sextans 217-215 BCE She-Wolf Twins Eagle Syd 95 Cr 39-3 S 609

 

Nice Eagles, Gandalf ... I love the last example (wolf and Eagle combo!!)

 

That is one of my favorites!