Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 3439 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $300
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $140
ATTICA, Aegina, (500-480 B.C.), silver stater, (12.014 grams), obv. smoothed shell sea turtle without row of dots down dorsal spine, rev. 'Incuse five sunken segments', [intentionally cut into the die], (S.1851 [£300], Asyut Group IIIa 'thin collar', cf.438-465, SNG Delepierre 1629). Well centred, otherwise fine - very fine, worn obverse die.
Asyut hoard suggests the chronology to be 500/490-480 B.C.
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