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29 viewsC. 470-440 BC
Obverse: Eagle standing left.
Reverse: Crab.
Ref: Randazzo 13
Weight: 16.82g
Size: 26mm
Comments: There seems to be only one obverse die with the claws of the eagle exactly like this one in Ulla Westermark, "The Coinage of Akragas and this is O10.
This is a problem, because the N is recut wrong in the transfer die and so different on the authentic coins!
The wrong recut N only found on the transfer die fakes :(
The surface are unusual and soapy indicating it could be a cast fake.
There are unusual artifacts on the obverse and reverse, and are not found on authentic coins so they must be either die flaws in the transfer dies or casting defects or lumps. The weight is slightly lower than is typically found. There are no remnant/evidence of casting sprues typically found on these coins.
paul1888
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Akragas37 viewsFake reverse die used to make it:
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pos=-18223
Sicily, Hemilitron, Akragas, c. 420-406 BC; AR (g 0,21; mm 8; h 6); AKPA (retr.), eagle standing r. on rock; holding snake with claws; Rv. Crab; below, six pellets. SNG Copenhagen -; SNG ANS -.Din X
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Akragas53 viewsWrong die combination
Reverse die is
Sicily, Hemilitron, Akragas, c. 420-406 BC; AR (g 0,21; mm 8; h 6); AKPA (retr.), eagle standing r. on rock; holding snake with claws; Rv. Crab; below, six pellets. SNG Copenhagen -; SNG ANS -.
fake die was used to make this fake
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pos=-18222Din X
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Akragas33 viewsFake die usb microscope picture mirrored vs fake made with it
Sicily, Hemilitron, Akragas, c. 420-406 BC; AR (g 0,21; mm 8; h 6); AKPA (retr.), eagle standing r. on rock; holding snake with claws; Rv. Crab; below, six pellets. SNG Copenhagen -; SNG ANS -.Din X
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Akragas39 viewsUsb microscope picture
Sicily, Hemilitron, Akragas, c. 420-406 BC; AR (g 0,21; mm 8; h 6); AKPA (retr.), eagle standing r. on rock; holding snake with claws; Rv. Crab; below, six pellets. SNG Copenhagen -; SNG ANS -.Din X
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Akragas - Hemidrachme56 viewsAkragas
Hemidrachme
420 - 410 BC.
Av.: Eagle with spread wings standing left, tearing a hare
Rev.: R A (?) / Crab, fish below
2,01 Gr.
HGC 2 - 103 ff.
A dangerous cast fake. nummis durensis
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Akragas Agrigento Tetradrachm171 viewsInasta Auction No. 43 of 22/2/2012 Type auction: Match The online auction ends on 22/2/2012
Lot No.: 8270 Category: FALSE (studio, modern, etc..) Storage: QSPL
False (studio, modern, etc..) - Agrigento - Tetradramma - (16.45 g AG)
SRukke
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Akragas Agrigentum50 viewsSicily, Agrigentum
Decadrachm, unsigned work of My(ron) and Poly(ainos) circa 409-406, AR 42.42 g. AKRAGAS Fast quadriga driven l. by charioteer, holding reins with both hands; above, eagle flying l., holding snake in its talons. Below horses, crab. Rev. Two eagles l., perching on dead hare lying on rock; the further with spread wings lowers its head towards the prey; the nearer, with closed wings, raises its head to screech. In r. field, grasshopper. L. Mildernberg, Essays Kraay-Mørkholm, p. 185, footnote 35 (this coin). SNG Dewing 562 (this coin cited). Gulbenkian 168 (this reverse die). Rizzo pl. II, 8 (these dies). SNG Lloyd 817 (these dies). Wealth of the Ancient World 77 (this coin). Seltman, NC 1948 part I, 8Din X
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Akragas Agrigentum AE 25136 viewsInasta Auction No. 43 of 22/2/2012 Type auction: Match The online auction ends on 22/2/2012
Lot No.: 8272 Category: FALSE (studio, modern, etc..) Storage: SPL
False (studio, modern, etc..) - Agrigento - 25 AE - (AE 14.58 g.)SRukke
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Akragas Dekadrachm175 viewsSelling as a copy on Ebay, Nov, 2011
Sellers desc:
AKRAGAS SICILY , DEKADRACHM , SOUVENIR , SOUVENIR ,
COPPER + SILVER
37,41mm. SRukke
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Akragas Dekadrachm Cabinet W Lot 1008119 viewsOne of the three coins of the Dr P. Weiss Collection (Lot 1008 of Triton XV Cabinet W collection auction) seized prior to auction and determined to be fake by expert evidence presented to the NY Court. The specific diagnostics of the fake have yet to be released by the Court. There is some possibility the coin was genuine and having it declared it fake was part of an effort to stay out of prison for smuggling looted artifacts. Joe Sermarini
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Akragas Hemidrachme58 views2,04 g
SNG Kop. 56.
Withdrawn as fake, November 2013.Manuel
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Akragas Hemidrachme40 views1.07 g.
SNG ANS 1014.
Modern forgery.Manuel
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Akragas Silver Dekadrachm57 viewsANA IBSCC Bulletin on Counterfeits BOCS Vol 17 No.1 1992 Page 8 Fig 2a
Weight : 43.59gJoe Sermarini
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Akragas, Ar Didrachm149 viewsObv:- Eagle with closed wings, standing on rock with two pellets attacking serpent. AKPA above.
Rev: Crab; above, vine leaf; below fish left
Fig 4 is the false coin 8.31g
Overstruck, probably on a Corinthian stater with large helmet. If so, then the undertype is younger than the coin struck upon it.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 12, No. 1 in 1987 - example 4
Image used with permission of IAPNmaridvnvm
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Akragas, Ar Tetradrachm, c. 450 BC182 viewsObv:- Eagle with closed wingsstanding left.
Rev:- Crab.
Fig 2 is the false coin - 16.96g
Struck from modern dies quite recently.
When a gentleman from South Australia went to Zurich after visiting Sicily, he wished to know more about the ancient coins he had purchased on his trip. Alas, what he was sure were good buys (he bought them in the country of origin, after all) looked like a page from BoC. They illustrated what is for sale to tourists in Sicily.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 14, No. 2 in 1989 - example 2
Image used with permission of IAPNmaridvnvm
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Akragas, Ar Tetradrachm, c. 450 BC226 viewsObv:- Eagle with closed wingsstanding left.
Rev:- Crab.
Fig 1 is the false coin - 17.27g
Fig 2 is genuine - ex "Kunstfreund"
Struck from modern dies. The obverse die is too large and flat. Generally, the letters in the original are confidently, but lightly made; in the counterfeit die they are recut and have a thicker, less graceful, more regular appearnce. Note the letter N; it is recut with the vertical strokes nearly the same length in the counterfeit; on the original the left stroke id only half as long as the right one. The head and neck of the bird have been touched up in the new die and have become slimmer in the process.
The reverse incuse is deeper than on any of the published speciments of this die. The die break on the edge of the incuse below the crab which occurs on all these specimens has been tooled off in the counterfeit die.
Published in the IAPN BOC Vol 13, No. 1 in 1988 - example 1
Image used with permission of IAPNmaridvnvm
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Akragas, Becker, Hill 158 viewsAkragas, Becker, Hill 15
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Akragas, Becker, Hill 157 viewsAkragas, Becker, Hill 15
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Akragas, Becker, Hill 1510 viewsAkragas, Becker, Hill 15
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Akragas, Becker, Hill 157 viewsAkragas, Becker, Hill 15
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Akragas, Becker, Hill 158 viewsAkragas, Becker, Hill 15
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Akragas, Becker, Hill 154 viewsAkragas, Becker, Hill 15
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