Fine Style Athena
ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.83 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Struck circa 165-149/8 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 across upper field, two monograms across central field, grain ear to lower right; all within wreath. Thompson 54 (same dies); HGC 4, 1602; McClean 5898 (same dies). Toned, minor die wear on obverse. EF. Fine style. Well struck.
Ex MACM inventory MMoCA22C; Triton XIII (5 January 2010), lot 142.
