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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 26622466, member: 99456&quot;]although I don&#039;t necessarily find it easy to see two different types of crabs in Westermark&#039;s die study - your crab clearly looks more rounded and less boxy than mine.&nbsp; Perhaps the Shore or Harbour crab discussed? </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The crab on the coins of Akragas has long been recognized as a freshwater species. Dr. R. W. Ingle, Museum of Natural History, London, who – many years ago – examined a large selection of photographs of coins from Akragas found that the majority of the crabs belong to different species of the Potamonidae family (the most common being Potamon fluviatile fluviatile occuring in Italy, Greece and the Balkans).95 He found also that some coins (e.g. didrachm no. 154 in Group III and tetradrachm no. 349) probably show a marine crab, the Shore or Harbour crab (Carcinus maenas of the Portunidae family) which is typical for the Mediterrean area.&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1697525[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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