195, Lot: 54. Estimate $200. Sold for $217. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 460-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 17.06 g, 8h). Eastern imitation. Helmeted head of Athena right / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind; all within incuse square; c/m: bird(?). 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, 11-12, and p. 5, fig. 1, 42 for similar c/m. VF, darkly toned, scrape on obverse, some deposits.