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Lot 433

Estimate: 100 GBP
Price realized: 260 GBP
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Islands off Attica, Aegina(?) AR Hemidrachm. Contemporary imitation, circa late 6th - early 5th century BC. Stylized sea turtle (?) with segmented shell / Irregular incuse punch. For late 5th century hemidrachms imitating Aegina, cf. Traeger 213-4 and Robinson Pseudoaeginetica (Kydonia). 3.13g, 15mm.

Near Very Fine. Likely an imitation of the Aegina type but cruder in style than the hemidrachms attributed to Kydonia.

For discussions of proto-Tortoise staters and their possible origins see Robinson Pseudoaeginetica, Holloway Archaic Appendix: The Attribution of the Proto-Tortoise Group, and Selinus Hoard, pp. 21-22.
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