The place
It contains the coin collection, with examples dating from the 6th to the 3rd century BC. The discovery of coins is of fundamental importance for understanding the political, economic, and social history of a territory, as they provide direct evidence of the commercial exchanges that took place in a given place. Thus, alongside the coins from Akrágas (characterized by an eagle on the obverse and a crab on the reverse), there are coins from Carthage, mainland Greece (Athens and Corinth), and most of the most important Sicilian and Magna Graecian cities: Syracuse, Gela, Catania, Messina, Naples, Taranto, Sibari, and Reggio. A special place is occupied by the gold treasure from the Roman Republican era, found inside an achromatic jar in the bouleuterion area, consisting of 52 coins with Mars wearing a helmet on the obverse and an eagle with outstretched wings on the reverse.
