Akragas 400-380 BC AE hemilitron 17.6 g 2.71 cm 2.71 cm
obverse: hd Akragas l river-god, hornes and wearing tainia AKPAΓAΣ reverse: eagle stg l on Ionic column hd r, crab l, 6 pellets Calciati CNS I p194 89, Hoover HCS 139 Holleman Munten November 1999
dated before the Carthaginian invasion (406 BC) by G.E. Rizzo and S. Consolo Langher.
dated about 338 BC (Akragas rebuilded) by Head and E. Gàbrici (this assumption seems no longer acceptable)
dated 4C BC by U. Westermark, on account of the weight and the shape of the flan.
400-380 BC by Numismatica Ars Classica 13 (1998) 269
17.24 g Wehler 1997 G62
17.60 g Holleman 1999
17.25 g Triton V 133
19.79 g Numismatica Ars Classica 13 269
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