Ex Antilebanon Hoard

271, Lot: 15. Estimate $5000. Sold for $23000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 510-500/490 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 17.29 g, 5h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet, decorated with small spiral behind the ear, and earring / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig to left, AΘE (barely visible) to right; all within incuse square. Seltman Group L (unlisted dies, but probably the same hand as A223 and P284); Asyut Group III; BMC 17 and 24; SNG Copenhagen –; Antilebanon 15 = E. Pászthory and S. Hurter, “Metallurgische Untersuchungen an archaischen Münzen aus Athen,” SM 124 (1981), 20 (this coin). Near EF, toned, struck from a worn reverse die, area of find patina on edge. Rare Seltman group, of fine style.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Leu 74 (19 October 1998), lot 185; 1978 Antilebanon Hoard (CH 6, 4 = CH 7, 12(?) = CH 8, 45).