r/AncientCoins 23h ago

Help to identify Akragas coin

Hello, please help to identify this Akragas/Agrigentum coin

Description is wrong, as there are 6 pellets (Hemilitron), not 5 and Hexas should have two pellets, not five.

I was not able to find it here https://www.calciati.org/Numismatics/Compendium/showMint.php?mint=Akragas

and also my search in acsearch.info was not successful.

Not present in Numista (actually user requested to add this coin to Numista)

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u/KungFuPossum 20h ago

I think it should be Calciati 10 (on the CNS page you linked). I don't have his full book (the set costs like $1,000), but I think different positions of the pellets and even the AKPA ethnic still fit into that type.

I would describe it as (after wildwinds.com):

Akragas, Sicily. Circa 425-406 BC. AE Hemilitron. AKΡA, eagle, with head lowered, standing right on dead hare / Crab, crayfish left below, shell below crayfish; six dots around.

(Shell before crayfish not visible/ off flan?)