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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24848780, member: 26430&quot;]I don&#039;t have one of my own yet, but those little Akragas Hemidrachms are great. You didn&#039;t reference Westermark (the primary die study for all 5th cent. coins from Akragas, including the Hemidrachms), so I grabbed some images of the appropriate plate (from vol. 1) and corresponding text from the catalog (vol. 2).</p><p><br /></p><p>For anyone interested, the two volumes of Westermark are both available online&nbsp; as PDFs (entirely legally):</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Westermark, Ulla. 2018.<i> The Coinage of Akragas c. 510–406 BC</i></b>. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><b>Part 1: Text and Plates</b>: <a href="https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1189867&amp;dswid=9859" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1189867&amp;dswid=9859" rel="nofollow">https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:1189867&amp;dswid=9859</a></p><blockquote><p><font size="4">[&quot;<font face="Verdana">Open Access in DiVA: <a href="https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1189867/FULLTEXT03.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1189867/FULLTEXT03.pdf" rel="nofollow">fulltext</a>(19528 kB)</font>&quot; <b>PDF</b>]</font></p></blockquote><b>Part 2: Catalogue</b>: <a href="https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1190038&amp;dswid=5183" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1190038&amp;dswid=5183" rel="nofollow">https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:1190038&amp;dswid=5183</a></p><blockquote><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4">[&quot;Open Access in DiVA <a href="https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1190038/FULLTEXT03.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1190038/FULLTEXT03.pdf" rel="nofollow">fulltext</a>(1687 kB)&quot; <b>PDF</b>]</font></font></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Yours looks like Westermark 550 (O8/R7). Photos of closest, neighboring die-pairs included below for comparison:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1592427[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve included excerpts of the description &amp; the catalog of known specimens below in expandable thumbnails (<i>click to enlarge</i>):</p><ul> <li>550.1-550.5</li> </ul> <blockquote><p>[ATTACH]1592428[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p> <ul> <li>550.6 - 550.17</li> </ul> <blockquote><p>[ATTACH]1592429[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>A lot of the Akragas coins available on the market were cited (or illustrated) in Westermark, though sellers don&#039;t always realize or mention it. They don&#039;t have to be pristine, just auctioned before the 2018 book.</p><p><br /></p><p>(At 1.86g there are two plausible specimens -- 550.15 [NY Sale I, 26] and 550.17 [Peus 298, 22] -- but after checking the catalogs, unfortunately, neither turns out to be your coin.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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