CNG 93, Lot: 296. Estimate $500. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 525/0-500 BC. AR Stater (18mm, 12.39 g). Sea turtle with thin collar and row of dots down its back / Incuse square of “Union Jack” pattern with eight incuse segments. Milbank Period I; Asyut Group IIb; HGC 6, 425; Holloway, Archaic, pl. II, 26 (same obv. die). VF, toned, minor surface roughness. Beautifully centered and struck.

Ex Herbert Cahn Collection.