Lot 4630
Sale 119 · Important Australian, British, World, and Ancient Coins, Banknotes, and Medals
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Description
Attica, Aegina, (500-480 B.C.), silver stater, (12.06 g), obv. smoothed shell sea turtle with row of dots down dorsal spine, with countermark of a small turtle in centre of shell, rev. "windmill" [four sunken segments, wedge shaped], (S.1854, Asyut Group IVb "heavy collar" cf.500-506 particularly 502, cf.SNG Delepierre 1509). Well centred on obverse, fine- very fine, countermark very fine, making it very rare.
Ex Ponterio and Associates, Sale 102, 29th July, 1999 (lot 167).
Asyut hoard suggests the chronology to be 500/490-480 B.C.
- Estimate
- $300
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $200