CNG 112, Lot: 202. Estimate $300. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 480-457 BC. AR Obol (9mm, 1.04 g, 1h). Sea turtle, head in profile, with trefoil collar and ‘T-back’ design on shell / Large square incuse with skew pattern. Meadows, Aegina, Group IIIa; Milbank –; HGC 6, 450; SNG Lockett 1967. Toned. VF. Well centered on a broad flan, good metal.

From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex Russel Bement, Jr. Collection (Triton III, 30 November 1999), lot 446.