Aegina’s First Drachm Issue

CNG 93, Lot: 297. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 525/0-500 BC. AR Drachm (14mm, 6.16 g). Sea turtle with thick collar and row of dots down its back / Incuse square of “Union Jack” pattern with five incuse and three raised segments. Milbank Period I; HGC 6, 440 (this coin illustrated); Dewing 1662 (same obv die); SNG Fabricius 357 (same dies). VF, lightly toned. Very rare earliest issue of drachms from Aegina.

Ex BRN Collection (Triton XV, 3 January 2012), lot 1174 (sold for hammer $6500, but not paid); Numismatica Genevensis VI (30 November 2010), lot 68.