1073129 | GREEK. SICILY. Acragas (Agrigentum/Akragas). Struck circa 410-406 BC. Silanos AV Dilitron. NGC Ch. MS (Choice Mint State) Strike 5/5 Surface 5/5. 1.34gm. AKRA. Eagle right perched on rocks, clutches a serpent / ΣIΛA/ ΣON (retrograde). Crab (Cancer). Rizzo Table. III, 8 (this coin); Westermark, Akragas 1015.4 (this coin).

Superb and exceptional.

Ex Pennisi di Floristella (noted on insert); Ex. Moretti Collexction; Ex- NAC 10, Zürich 1997, Lot 96. Rizzo (Monete Greche della Sicilia, Rome, 1946) plate coin.


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Agostino Pennisi di Floristella (Acireale , July 17, 1832 - Acireale , August 14, 1885) was an Italian entrepreneur and numismatist. He inherited a vast collection of Greek-Sicilian and Roman coins which he expanded, followed by his son Salvatore Pennisi Alessi, and which today constitutes the Monetario Floristella, made up of thousands of rare and some unique pieces. Part of the collection is kept in the Regional Archaeological Museum of Syracuse, while other pieces are still kept in the family or have entered the collector's trade. [courtesy of Wikipedia].