Triton XX, Lot: 168. Estimate $3000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 525/0-500 BC. AR Stater (19.5mm, 12.09 g). Sea turtle, head in profile, with thin collar, row of dots down its back, and thin legs / Deep incuse square of “Union Jack” pattern with eight incuse segments. Asyut Group IIa; Selinus Hoard Group II; Meadows, Aegina, Group IIa; HGC 6, 428; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Berry 749; SNG Delepierre 1522–6; SNG Lockett 1948; Dewing 1654. VF, toned, slightly off center on reverse. Well centered obverse, with all dots and legs visible.

From the L. Shea Collection