Details
LOT 2932
Attica, Athens AR Tetradrachm. Circa 454-404 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, all within incuse square. Kroll 8; Dewing 1591-8; SNG Copenhagen 31; HGC 4, 1597. Good Very Fine. Rough surfaces. Some deposits.(16.77gr, 25mm, 9h.).
Provenance
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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