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Decadrachm of Akragas
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Obv.: Quadriga to l. driven by river-god Akragas or Helios? Below, crab; above, eagle of Zeus carrying snake; linear border; die scratches visible to upper l.
Rev.: Two eagles standing l.; to r., grasshopper.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Baron Pasquale Pennisi di Santa Margherita [1] Acireale Sicily (before 1867) by descent; to Baron Agostino Pennisi di Floristella [2] Acireale Sicily (1931-1937 or 1938) sold; to [Jacob Hirsch Geneva (1937 or 1938-1945)] sold; to Arthur Stone Dewing [3] Cambridge MA (from 1945) lent; to Fogg Art Museum (from 1965)
1. Baron Pasquale Pennisi di Santa Margherita (1845-1874). The decadrachm was published as being in the Pennisi collection in Antonio Salinas Le monete delle antiche citta di Sicilia (1867).
2. Baron Agostino Pennisi di Floristella (1890-1963). He inherited the Greek part of the family collection upon the death of his father Salvatore Pennisi in 1931. About the collection see Erich Boehringer Zeitschrift für Numismatik 42 (1935) pp. 252-9.
3. Arthur Stone Dewing (1880-1971). According to Dewing’s inventory card “private purchase Dr J. Hirsch January 13 1945 Carolyn’s birthday [granddaughter].” A letter from Jacob Hirsch to A. S. Dewing dated January 31 1945 states “I am sorry to say that my records are in Paris but I must have purchased the coin in 1937 or early 1938. The present Baron Pennisi inherited the collection from his father who in turn inherited it from his own father. (…) comes from the grandfather of the actual owner of the collection Baron Pasquale Pennisi…”
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Loan from the Trustees of the Arthur Stone Dewing Greek Numismatic Foundation
Title: Decadrachm of Akragas
Description:
Obv.
: Quadriga to l.
driven by river-god Akragas or Helios? Below, crab; above, eagle of Zeus carrying snake; linear border; die scratches visible to upper l.
Rev.
: Two eagles standing l.
; to r.
, grasshopper.
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