455, Lot: 110. Estimate $300. Sold for $1256. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 550-530/25 BC. AR Stater (18mm, 12.02 g). “Proto-tortoise” with shell divided into thirteen segments / Incuse square of “Union Jack” pattern. Holloway, Archaic, Group C, dies 9/– (unlisted rev. die); Meadows, Aegina, Group Ib; Asyut Group V, 512 (same obv. die); HGC 6, 427; SNG Lockett 2635 = Pozzi 1632 (same obv. die); Selinus Hoard 123-4 (same obv. die). Darkly toned, graffito, scratches, and banker’s mark on obverse. VF. Rare.

From the J.B. Collection, purchased in Las Vegas, Winter 2002.