ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.95 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Polycharm(os), Nikog(enes), and Dionysios, magistrates. Struck 133/2 BC. Head of Athena Parthenos right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and triple-crested Attic helmet decorated with the foreparts of four horses above the visor, a Pegasos in flight rightward above the raised earpiece, and a curvilinear ornament on the bowl / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; A-ӨE above ΠOΛY-XAPM/ NIKOΓ/ ΔIONY/ΣIOY (magistrates’ names) in four lines across field; winged kerykeion to left, E on amphora, ME below; all within wreath. Thompson 379a (same obv. die); HGC 4, 1635; SNG Lockett 1936 (same obv. die). Lightly toned, a little off center on obverse. Near EF.
Ex Heinrich Rudolf Peter Collection; Künker 62 (13 March 2001), lot 86.