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LOT 3123
Islands off Attica, Aegina AR Stater. Circa 456/45-431 BC.
Land tortoise with segmented shell / Large incuse square with heavy skew pattern. Meadows, Aegina, Group IIIb; Milbank Period IV, pl. II, 12; SNG Copenhagen 517; Boston MFA 1116; HGC 6, 437. Very Fine. Light cabinet tone.(12.50gr, 20mm, 5h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
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