Triton XVII, Lot: 223. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.78 g, 11h). New Style coinage. Timarchos, Nikago–, and Kleon–, magistrates. Struck 134/3 BC. Head of Athena Parthenos right, wearing single-pendant earring and triple crested Attic helmet decorated with Pegasos and floral pattern / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; AΘE above TIM-APXOY/NIKAΓO/KΛEΩN (magistrates’ names) in four lines across field, anchor and star to left, I on amphora, ΣΦ below; all within wreath. Thompson 367a (same dies); Glendining, 9 March 1931, lot 1072 (same dies). EF, area of minor roughness on obverse.