Triton XVIII, Lot: 520. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 400/390-353 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 16.87 g, 8h). Head of Athena right, with profile eye, 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 15a-b; Svoronos,
Monnaies, pl. 19, 13-15 & 17-22; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG München 90; Dewing 1625; Pozzi 1569. EF, toned, some die wear, a couple minor delaminations in field on reverse. Well struck on a broad flan.
From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Vecchi 13 (4 September 1998), lot 334.