★ Head of kyzikian fish as countermark ★

Islands off Attica. Aegina circa 510-490 BC.
Stater AR

21 mm., 11,95 g.

Sea turtle, head in profile, [with ‘T-pattern’ shell with thin collar?], c/m: head of fish to left / “Union Jack” incuse pattern with four segments filled.

nearly very fine

Cf. SNG Delepierre 1533-88.

The type of this countermark closely resembles that of the silver archaic coinage of Kyzikos.