AEGINA SILVER STATER – SEA TURTLE TYPE WITH TWO COUNTERMARKS – VF GREEK COIN (INV. 20425)

$2,750.00

20425. ISLAND OF AEGINA. Ca. 480–457 BC.
Silver Stater, 12.10 g, 23 mm.
Obv. Sea turtle with shell showing a thick collar, its beaked head turned left, circular dots at top of shell, oval countermark on shell seemingly applied over an earlier countermark (dots ?), additional flower countermark on edge. Rev. Skew pattern in incuse square.
HGC 6, 435; Meadows, Aegina, Group IIIa; Milbank Period III, pl. I, 14-15; Milbank, p. 19, countermark 25 on edge and countermark 30 on shell.
VF, attractive turtle with full head, and very interesting multiple countermarks.