Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 261. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 3rd Century BC. AR Drachm (4.16 gm). Helmeted head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and palmette on the bowl / AQE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind, trophy before. Cf. SNG Copenhagen 84; cf. BMC Attica pg. 15, 155; Svoronos pl. 23, 27-28. Toned, nice VF, reverse scratches, light porosity. Extremely rare, apparently the third known example. ($1000) 

Ex Spink 60 (7 October 1987), lot 78.