Sicily. Akragas. Hemidrachm. Circa 420-410 BC (Silver, 15.54 mm, 1.82 g). Eagle with spread wings standing right, on dead large size prey cub (perhaps deer or goat) held in talons; behind, barley grain; border of dots. Rev. A – [K – R] – A (around), Crab; below, ketos (sea-monster) right, holding fish in jaws. Westermark, Akragas Period III, Series 2, 582 (O22/R27, same dies). SNG ANS 1014 (same dies). SNG Copenhagen 55 (same dies). SNG München 82-83 (same dies). SNG Delepierre 532 (same dies). SNG Fitzwilliam 925 (same dies). BMC Sicily 12, 64 (same dies). McClean 2047 (same dies). Buceti 65 (same dies). HGC 2, 106 (same dies). Old cabinet tone with some light iridescence. Near Very Fine. Rare. Ex Kunst und Münzen Price list 70, June 1995, lot 59. The hemidrachms not only show an interesting renewal of the coin types, but they are also a new denomination in the monetary history of the mint," and were possibly the earliest appearance of the denomination in Western Sicily (Westermark, p. 111-112). The hemidrachm issue with the ketos (sea-monster), as here, is unique to the silver coinage of Akragas; Westermark connects it to the Skylla tetradrachms, and places it as the last issue of the denomination (known from only 5 obverse and reverse dies).