Lot 3264

Description

Attica, Aegina, (404-340 B.C.), silver stater, (12.030 grams), obv. land tortoise with segmented shell, rev. formalised incuse square of large design with the two principal lines of division crossing at right angles and a diagonal in larger square, (S.2606, BMC 165, Weber 3625, Milbank Pl.II, 15). Toned, full flan, overstruck on earlier sea-turtle issue, minor cut on shell of tortoise, otherwise very fine and a very rare overstrike.