Island off Attica Aegina. Stater 350-338 BC. Tortoise seen from above / Quadripartite incuse square with one square divided and dolphin. 12,17g. HGC 6, 439, Milbank ANSNNM 24, pl. III, 1; SNG Lockett 2002 (same dies). Extremely fine. Provenance: NFA 29 (13 August 1992), 109. Sotheby's Zurich (26 October 1993), 557. LHS 95 (25 October 2005), 620. Aegina first issued coins depicting sea turtles on the obverse, the emblem of the city. In 457 BC, after submitting to Athens, the island was forbidden to use its traditional sea‑turtle type — a symbolic assertion of Athenian maritime supremacy. From then on, Aegina replaced the sea turtle with a land tortoise on its coinage.