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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Aegina| > SH19452
Aegina, Saronic Islands, Greece, 490 - 485 B.C.
|Aegina|, |Aegina,| |Saronic| |Islands,| |Greece,| |490| |-| |485| |B.C.|, Aegina was probably the first place in Europe to issue coinage, an Aegina turtle is considered a "must have" by many ancient coin collectors.

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SH19452. Silver stater, HGC 6 430 (S); Meadows Aegina group IIa-IIb; SNG Lockett 1954 (this coin), Pozzi 3638 (this coin), SGCV I 1858, BMC Attica 10, VF, toned, Aegina mint, weight 12.108g, maximum diameter 19.0mm, 485 - 480 B.C.; obverse sea-tortoise (Chelone Caouana) or common loggerhead turtle of the Mediterranean; reverse incuse square of divided into five triangles; ex Pozzi, ex Lockett; scarce; SOLD










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