Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 624. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 460-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.73 g, 10h). Eastern imitation. Helmeted head of Athena right; c/m: retrograde ΓI -like device in incuse square / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind; all within incuse square. P.G. van Alfen, "The 'Owls' from the 1989 Syria Hoard with a review of Pre-Macedonian Coinage in Egypt," AJN 14 (2002), pl. 12, 4. Good VF, test cut on reverse.