Watch List notes:

ISLANDS OFF ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 456/45-431 BC. Stater (Silver, 20 mm, 12.44 g). Land tortoise with segmented shell. Rev. Incuse square with skew pattern. Boston MFA 1116. HGC 6, 437. Milbank Period IV, pl. II, 12. SNG Copenhagen 517. B. Thomas and E. Kesteloot: Tortues du Mondes. Alleur-Liège 1998, p. 176 (this coin). A very sharp, very well centered and exceptionally well preserved example. Extremely fine.


Ex Numismatica Genevensis 6, 30-November-1 December 2010, 73, from the Batibouw collection and that of the Nicole and Georges de Vestel.