ISLANDS off ATTICA, Aegina. Circa 550-530/25 BC. AR Stater (19mm, 12.34 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, unlisted dies; Meadows, Aegina, Group Ib; cf. Milbank Period I, pl. I, 3; HGC 6, 424. Darkly toned, deposits on reverse. Good VF.
From the William H. Birkinshaw Collection. Ex Triton I (2 December 1997), lot 497.