From the Dekadrachm Issue

CNG 100, Lot: 1366. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 475-465 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 16.67 g, 6h). 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 behind, AΘE to right; all within incuse square. Starr Group II.C, unlisted dies; Svoronos, Monnaies, pl. 8, 18–22; HGC 4, 1593; Weber 3438. VF, toned, a couple spots of very slight roughness, filled shallow test cut at base of helmet. Well centered and struck from high relief dies. From the same issue as the famous Athenian Dekadrachms.

From the collection of a Northern California Gentleman. Ex CNG Inventory 708485 (September 1998).