CNG 112, Lot: 197. Estimate $300. Sold for $802. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 525-480 BC. AR Hemidrachm – Quarter Stater (11mm, 3.13 g). Sea turtle, head in profile / Incuse square of "Union Jack" pattern with five incuse and three raised segments. Meadows, Aegina, Group IIa; Milbank –; cf. HGC 6, 446 (later issue); SNG Lockett 1962 (same dies). Lightly toned, a touch off center on obverse. VF. Very rare, from among the earliest hemidrachm issues of Aegina.

From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex CNG inventory 708172 (September 1998), purchased from Joe Linzalone, August 1998.