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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gil-galad, post: 2329869, member: 44154&quot;]I was thinking about posting some bling, but I changed my mind and decided to post this wish coin from Acragas. This is one of my most favorite coins of high grade. Of course I&#039;ll never own it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]472253[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>SICILY</p><p>ACRAGAS.</p><p>No.: 26</p><p>Estimate: $ 200000</p><p>d=31 mm</p><p>Tetradrachm, about 410 BC. AR 17.13 g. A-K-R-A Two eagles standing side by side on the upturned body of a dead hare; the nearer one, with closed wings, screaming with its head reared, the second one, with spread wings, is tearing at the prey. Rev. AKRA-GA-NTIN-ON Crab, below Scylla swimming l., her r. hand raised to shade her eyes (aposkopein), her l. arm trailing behind, her hair streaming in the wind; she is composed of a nude, female upper part of the body, of the foreparts of two dogs and of a long, spiny and finned body of a ketos. Pozzi 389 (these dies). Rizzo pl. 1, 20 (these dies). Gulbenkian pl. XVII, 166 (these dies). U. Westermark, Skylla on the Coins of Akragas, Essays Bérend pl. 25, 1. Very rare, of high artistic value, one of the masterpieces of Greek Coinage. Light tone. Slightly irregularly shaped flan, but well centred on the rev., showing Scylla in full.</p><p>Extremely fine[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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