Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 318. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 229-168/5 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.22 gm, 1h). Head of Athena right, with profile eye and single-pendant earring, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with olive leaves over visor and an ornate palmette on the bowl / AQE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig, crescent, and grain ear behind, plemochoe to right. Cf. H. Nicolet-Pierre, "De l'ancien au nouveau style athénien: une continuité?" SPNO I, pl. XV, 6; cf. M. Price, "The Larissa, 1968 Hoard," Kraay-Mørkholm Essays, pg. 238, 223-229. Good VF, toned. Very rare series, and unpublished with these symbols. ($2000)

From the latest series of tetradrachms before the introduction of the New Style coinage.