452, Lot: 273. Estimate $300. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28.5mm, 16.71 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Phanokles, Apollonios, and Asklapon, magistrates. Struck 111/10 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; [letter (K?) on amphora]; in right field, Artemis Phosphoros standing facing, holding torch with both hands; ME below; all within wreath. Thompson 706b (same obv. die); HGC 4, 1602. Lightly toned. VF.

From the John L. Cowan Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXII.3 (Fall/Winter 1998), no. SP3003 (part of).