ISLANDS OFF ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 480-457 BC. Stater (Silver, 20 mm, 12.25 g). Sea turtle with a T-shaped design of line of five large pellets down the back of its shell and with two smaller ones flanking the top to form a ‘collar’. Rev. Square incuse with large skew pattern. Gulbenkian 523. Kraay & Hirmer 336. Milbank Pl. I, 15. SNG Copenhagen 507. Attractive and toned. Minor scratches on both sides and with the reverse struck off-center, otherwise, about extremely fine.

From an American collection, ex Triton IV, 5 December 2000, 209, ex Monnaies et Médailles 54, 26 October 1978, 229 and Monnaies et Médailles XXVIII, 19 June 1964, 145, from the stock of J. Hirsch, Ars Classica XVII, 3 October 1934, 479, and from the collection of S. Pozzi, Naville I, 4 April 1921, 1627 ( there bought by Egger for 130 CHF over Spink's ).