Lot 2021

Description

Attica, Aegina, (525/520-500 B.C.), silver stater, (12.10 grams), obv. sea turtle with row of dots down dorsal spine (these all worn and hardly visible), rev. incuse square, 'Union Jack' design with sunken triangles, (S.1849, ANS MN 33, Plate 9, No.109 this coin, described and illustrated). Nearly very fine and rare.

Ex. Selinus Archaic Silver Hoard (No.109). $$ One of the earliest European archaic silver coins, with an impecable petigree, found in Sicily (indicatiing early trade links from Attica to Sicily), coming from one of the greatest documented Archaic Greek coin hoards ever discovered.