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LOT 2612
Attica, Athens AR Tetradrachm. Circa 353-294 BC.
Head of Athena with profile eye to right, wearing disc earring, pearl necklace and a crested Attic helmet adorned with three olive leaves and a pi-style palmette / ΑΘΕ, owl standing to right, head facing the viewer, olive sprig with berry and crescent moon in upper left field. HGC 4, 1599. Very Fine.(16.42gr, 24mm, 9h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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