Triton XVIII, Lot: 517. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.13 g, 8h). 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. Kroll 8; SNG Copenhagen 31; SNG München 49; Dewing 1611–22; Gulbenkian 519–21. Near EF, lightly toned.
From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from C. H. Wolfe, 14 February 1989.