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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2605125, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">Hmmm? ... ummm, probably my sweet Akragas counter-stamped winna? </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">SICILY, Akragas. Æ Hemilitron</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Late 5th century BC</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Diameter: 28 mm</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Weight: 14.71 grams</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Obverse: Eagle standing right, tearing at hare</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reverse: Crab; six pellets around, crayfish below; c/m: head of Herakles right, wearing lion’s skin, within circular incuse</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reference: For undertype: cf. HGC 2, 136; for c/m: CNS 107 CM</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Other: 11h .... Coin Near VF, countermark VF, green patina. Well preserved undertype.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><i> From the Edgar L. Owen Collection</i></span></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]569308[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff">Akragas/Acragas ... ooow, there it is!! (cool)</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></b></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/AgrigentoMap.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... and wow, I know a lot of those sweet coin-cities, below (kinda neat) ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">I have coins from: Messana, Himera, Selinus, Akragas, Syracuse and probably more ... very cool</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><img src="https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/greekpast/files/2987778.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; here is a link to learn a bit more about Akragas (below) ... </span></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=it&amp;u=https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akragas&amp;prev=search" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=it&amp;u=https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akragas&amp;prev=search" rel="nofollow">https://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=it&amp;u=https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akragas&amp;prev=search</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff">Counter-stamping coins ... hey, why did they do that? </span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countermark" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countermark" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countermark</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... wow, that was kind of interesting too, eh?</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Yah, so I am assuming that my cool Sicilian coin was counter-stamped by Alexander-III (The Great) sometime during 336-323 BC??? (that&#039;s my guess anyway)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Well, there you have it ... that is now my most researched coin of 2016 (that was awesome) ... thanks for getting me off of my ass and making me do a bit of research </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Cheers </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH=full]569311[/ATTACH] </span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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