Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 513. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.75 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Mened-, Epigeno-, and Euryk-, magistrates. Struck 134/3 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; magistrates’ names in fields, small ME below owl’s tail, Λ on amphora; to left, Asklepios standing left, holding serpent-entwined staff; all within wreath. Thompson 354g = SNG Tübingen 1692 (same dies). Good VF, lightly toned.

From the Dr. Jörg W. Müller Collection. Ex Berk BBS 87 (13 Setember 1995), no. 119.

Thompson apparently did not realize that the engraver of this die moved the exergue mark to the area below the owl’s tail (to the upper left of the amphora), probably due to a lack of space.