CNG 87, Lot: 468. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 550-530/25 BC. AR Stater (17mm, 12.18 g). “Proto-tortoise” with shell divided into thirteen segments / Incuse square of “Union Jack” pattern. Holloway, Archaic, group C, dies 9/- (unlisted rev. die); Asyut Group V, 512 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen -; HGC 6, 427; SNG Lockett 2635 = Pozzi 1632 (same obv. die); Selinus Hoard 123 (same dies). VF, porous. Very rare.