Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 244. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 460-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.39 g, 10h). Eastern imitation. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl; c/m: ΓI -like device in incuse square / Owl standing right, head facing, with spread tail feathers; olive sprig and crescent behind, AΘE to right; all within incuse square. Cf. 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, 3 (c/m on reverse); cf. E&L fig. 10, 159 (for c/m). VF, struck from worn dies. Clear countermark.