Watch List notes:

ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 550-530/25 BC. AR Stater (19mm, 12.37 g). Sea turtle, head in profile, with thin collar and row of dots down its back / Deep incuse square with proto-"Union Jack" pattern. Holloway, Archaic, Group A, dies –/3 (unlisted obv. die); Meadows, Aegina, Group Ia; cf. Milbank Period I, pl. I, 3; HGC 6, 424; ACGC 114; Boston MFA 1107; Dewing 1656. Dark old cabinet tone, some find patina, a hint of granularity. EF. Rare.


From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex Numismatics Fine Arts XXV (29 November 1990), lot 110; Numismatics Fine Arts XX (9 March 1988), lot 698.