Triton XVIII, Lot: 508. Estimate $5000. Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 475-465 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 17.10 g, 9h). Head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent to left, AΘE to right; all within incuse square. Starr Group IV (unlisted dies); Svoronos, Monnaies, pl. 9, 8–12; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Lockett 1837; Dewing 1589; Gulbenkian 517; Kampmann 2 and front cover = DDTP p. 14 = AdG p. 39 (this coin); Pozzi 1540; Rhousopoulos 1970. Good VF, toned, small die break on obverse. Featured in the podcast “Laurion, ca. 460 BC” on the MoneyMuseum website (click here for the English version, here for the German version).

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Leu 77 (11 May 2000), lot 207.