The Weber collection; Greek coins ... - Forvm Ancient Coins

No.
"97
PI. 46
1 198
PI. 46
Wt.
122.5
7-94
30-3
1.96
1199 28.2
1.83
Metal
Size.
^23
A. 17
JK14
SICILY
DESCRIPTION
RL. Quadriga to r., driven by male charioteer, holding reins in both
hands and goad in r. ; horses in high action, the rein of the farthest
broken and hanging down ; above, Nike flying to 1. crowning
charioteer; below horses, artist's signature, MYP; in ex., Skylla
to r., her 1. hand raised. — Tetradrachm by, Myron (?).
B. M. Cat., Sicily, p. 9, u° 54.
Forrer, Signatures, p. 245, n° 1.
Weil, K'unstlerinschriften, PI. 1, 13.
(J. P. Lambros, 1888.)
" The victorious quadriga is an agonistic type of a class very prevalent in Sicily.
The occasion of its adoption at Agrigentum may have been the Olympian games
of B. C. 412, in which one of the victors was Exainetos, an Agrigentine citizen
who, on his return to his native town, was brought into the city in a chariot escort-
ed by 300 bigae drawn by white horses.
" As a powerful composition the type of the two eagles with the hare is perhaps
superior to any other contemporary Sicilian coin-type, and is certainly the work
of an artist of no mean capacitv. " (Head, Hist. Num., pp. 121-122.)
Eagle with spread wings standing to r. on serpent which he holds in
its talons; no legend visible.
1$L. Crab; between claws above, vine (or fig) leaf :
— Didrachm.
below, fish to 1.
(Montagu sale, 1897.)
Cf. Salinas, Mon. ant., p. 22, n° 197 ; PI. vm, 15.
This unique coin is a variety of the two specimens in Baron Pennisis' collection,
which have both the eagle to 1, ; on obv. round margin, AKPATANTINnN,
and above eagle ZTPA-
Eagle standing to r., with spread wings, on supine hare, about to
tear it : border of dots.
RL. AK--A. Crab, beneath, tunny-fish to r. — Hemidrachm.
AKRA. Eagle to 1. ; similar type.
B. M. Cat., p. 13, n° 70.
Salinas, PI. ix, 1
~R/,. No inscription. Similar type. — Hemidrachm.
— 251 —
.
(Hookham Frere sale, 1888.)
(Hookham Frere sale, 1888.)
B. M. Cat., p. 13, n° 66.
Salinas, PI. ix, 3.