Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 3083 SESSION 11 (9.30AM THURSDAY 21ST NOV) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $300
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SOLD $280
ATTICA, Aegina, (500-480 B.C.), silver stater, (12.13 g), obv. smoothed shell sea turtle with row of dots down dorsal spine, with countermark of a cross in wheel in centre of shell, rev. "windmill" [four sunken segments, wedge shaped], (S.1854, Asyut Group IVb "heavy collar" cf.500-506 particularly 502, cf.SNG Delepierre 1509). Well centred on obverse, fine - very fine, countermark very fine, making it very rare.
Ex Ponterio and Associates, Sale 102, 29th July, 1999 (lot 167).
Asyut hoard suggests the chronology to be 500/490-480 B.C.
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