Lot 2624

Sale 61 · Important Australian & World Coins, Banknotes & Military Medals, The W.J.Noble Collection of British Tickets, Passes & Tokens

Description

Attica, Aegina, (500-480 B.C.), silver stater, (11.970 grams), obv. smoothed shell sea turtle without row of dots down dorsal spine, rev. 'windmill' [four sunken segments, wedge shaped], (S.1854 [£300], Asyut Group IVb 'heavy collar' cf.500-506, SNG Delepierre 1582 [same obverse die]). Fine - very fine, worn obverse die with distinctive die break.

Asyut hoard suggests the chronology to be 500/490-480 B.C.

Estimate
$280
Result Status
Sold
Prices Realised
$0