Nomos AG
Auction 17 26 Oct 2018
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ISLANDS OFF ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 550-530/25 BC. Stater (Silver, 18 mm, 12.16 g). Smooth-shelled turtle, with a collar and a line of five pellets down the center of the shell. Rev. Irregular incuse square divided into 8 rough compartments. BMFA 1107 (same dies). Milbank pl. I, 4. Traité II, 1, pl. xxix, 7. Very rare. A remarkably elegant, toned coin, very well-struck and well-centered, of outstanding quality.
Ex Morton & Eden 3, 20 May 2003, 52 (£5800), from an English collection, and from the collection of J. Desneux, Hess-Leu 49, 27 April 1971, 165 .
This is one of the earliest coins to be struck in Aegina; it must have been less than a decade after Kroisos struck the first coins to be made of pure gold and pure silver (rather than the electrum used earlier).
Ex Morton & Eden 3, 20 May 2003, 52 (£5800), from an English collection, and from the collection of J. Desneux, Hess-Leu 49, 27 April 1971, 165 .
This is one of the earliest coins to be struck in Aegina; it must have been less than a decade after Kroisos struck the first coins to be made of pure gold and pure silver (rather than the electrum used earlier).