Islands off Attica, Aegina AR Hemidrachm - Quarter Stater. Contemporary imitation, circa late 6th - early 5th century BC. Sea turtle with segmented shell / Octopartite stellate incuse with central pellet. Apparently unpublished: for staters of a similar style cf. Holloway Archaic, pl. 7, 10 = Milbank pl. 1, 6 and Triton II, lot 379; for obols of similar style cf. Robinson Pseudoaeginetica pl. 10, 39 and NAC 123, lot 50; for late 5th century hemidrachms imitating Aegina cf. Traeger 213-4 and Robinson Pseudoaeginetica (Kydonia); cf. Berk 193, lot 141 (Kydonia, Triobol). 3.77g, 15mm.

Extremely Fine. A unique and unpublished specimen, likely an imitation of the Aegina type but cruder in style than the hemidrachms attributed to Kydonia.

From the inventory of a German dealer.

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.