392, Lot: 251. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Kydonia. Circa 450-330 BC. AR Hemidrachm (12mm, 2.94 g). Land tortoise with segmented shell / Large square incuse with skew pattern; crescent and olive leaf in segments. E.S.G. Robinson, "Pseudoaeginetica" in NC 1928, 18; Svoronos, Numismatique –; SNG Copenhagen 402 var. (no leaf). Fine, toned, porous. Rare.

From the W. H. Guertin Collection.