271, Lot: 17. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 550-530/25 BC. AR Stater (18mm, 11.96 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 123-4 (same obv. die); HGC 6, 427. Good VF, flan a little compact, slightly granular surfaces, light graffiti and minor scuff on reverse. Very rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 378.