357, Lot: 91. Estimate $150. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 353-294 BC. AR Tetradrachm (21.5mm, 17.13 g, 8h). Helmeted head of Athena right, with profile eye and pi-style palmette / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind. Kroll –; HGC 4, 1599. VF, toned, flan flaws (from folding prior flan), test cut on reverse, filled in antiquity.

The ‘pi’-style tetradrachms were typically struck on flans of older tetradrachms that were heated and folded before striking. Usually this is done in a way such that the folding is visible only along the edge, but the flan of the present piece appears to have been struck along the fold, leaving the indications of folding visible on the obverse.