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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2713592, member: 10461"]I used to use that as a desktop background.  What a beautiful place! [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] - wow.  Just... wow.[USER=44183]@stevex6[/USER] - more "wow". This Akragas piece I had is the only "Island" coin I can think of, offhand, since Akragas/Agrigento is on Sicily. Love the designs and all the activity going on with this coin, though there's a whole lot of scary predatory action happening! One day I hope to have another one of these, in higher grade. Sicily, Akragas: silver hemidrachm, ca. 410-406 BC Obverse: eagle right, clutching dead hare in its talons, barley grain behind.Reverse: Crab, with ketos below, swimming left with fish in its jaws. 16 mm, 1.8 g. SNG ANS 1012. Ex-Gitbud-Naumann, Germany, through VCoins store, 5/28/2014. <img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Ancient%20Coins-%20Greek%20and%20Roman%20Provincial/Sicily-Akragas-AR-hemidrachm-014588.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Wikipedia pages:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrigento" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrigento" rel="nofollow">Akragas (Agrigentum, Agrigento)</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketos" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketos" rel="nofollow">Ketos (cetus)</a>[/QUOTE]