440, Lot: 116. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32.5mm, 16.80 g, 1h). New Style coinage. Poly– and Timarch–, magistrates. Struck 149/8 BC. Helmeted head of Athena Parthenos right / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; transverse palm frond in background, magistrates’ names flanking, E to lower left, uncertain letters below amphora; all within wreath. Cf. Thompson 101X–110; HGC 4, 1602. VF, poorly struck.