Bronze hemilitra, eagle with spread wings, Agrigentum mint

An image of Coinage. Hemilitra. Obverse: Eagle with spread wings, standing right. Reverse: Crab. Agrigentum mint, Sicily. Greek series. Euboic-Attic. Bronze, struck, weight 13.64, g, pre 406 B.C.

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Coinage. Hemilitra. Obverse: Eagle with spread wings, standing right. Reverse: Crab. Agrigentum mint, Sicily. Greek series. Euboic-Attic. Bronze, struck, weight 13.64, g, pre 406 B.C.

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Accession Number: CM.MC.2066
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/13.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 796 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 127.10kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 13/1

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