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Triton XIX, Lot: 122. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 500/490-485/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (19.5mm, 17.69 g, 6h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet and earring, hair in thin rows of ringlets / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig to left, [A]-ΘE to right; all within incuse square. Seltman Group G (unlisted dies); HGC 4, 1590; Asyut group IV, 268-394; SNG Copenhagen 19; C.M. Kraay & P.R.S. Moorey, “Two fifth century hoards from the Near East” in RN 1968, p. 184, 19 (this coin). VF, toned. Well struck for issue.


Ex John A. Seeger Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 76 (12 September 2007, lot 3048; Hesperia Art Bulletin XL/XLI (1969), no. 43; Jordan 1967 Hoard (ICGH 1482).