425, Lot: 140. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. Fourrée Tetradrachm (22mm, 13.47 g, 9h). Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind; all within incuse square. For prototype, cf. Kroll 8; cf. HGC 4, 1597. VF, toned, plating broken in areas.
From the WRG Collection. Ex Superior (13 August 1995), lot 1071 (listed as an emergency issue of the Peloponnesian War).