Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 1652 Session 6 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $200
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ATTICA, Aegina, (490-480 B.C.), silver stater, (11.72 grams), obv. smoothed shell sea turtle without row of dots down dorsal spine, rev. 'proto-skew', [one or more lines wedge shaped], (S.1857 [Å“325], Asyut Group VIc 'late thin collar', cf.533-540, SNG Delepierre 1681). Very good - fine, worn obverse die.
Asyut hoard suggests the chronology to be 500/490-480 B.C.
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