438, Lot: 268. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Alexandrine Empire. temp. Mazakes – Bleitor. Satraps of Mesopotamia, circa 331-316 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 16.36 g, 3h). Imitating Athens. Head of Athena right, with profile eye, wearing earring 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; [AIΓ to right]; all within incuse circle. Van Alfen, Mechanisms, Group III.E.2, fig. 24; Diebolt & Nicolet-Pierre, "Recherches sur le métal de tétradrachmes à types athéniens," SNR 56, pl. 23, 6; BMC Attica 271; MIG Type 13 c. Fine, toned, areas of flat strike.