Group G Archaic Tetradrachm

221, Lot: 378. Estimate $500. Sold for $2005. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 500/490-485/0 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 17.26 g, 4h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with zig-zag and pellet pattern on the crest / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig behind; all within incuse square. Seltman group Gi, 149-212 (uncertain dies); Asyut group IV, 268-394; Dewing 1586; SNG Copenhagen 19. VF, toned, minor roughness.

From the Jörg Müller Collection. Ex Schweizerischer Bankverein 28 (17 September 1991), lot 138.