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Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 318. Estimate $500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005. 
Sold For $1350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 264-267 AD. Æ Drachm (5.22 gm, 7h). Helmeted and draped bust of Athena right / Northern view of the Acropolis, showing the Propylaia, Phidias' statue of Athena Promachos, and the Erechtheon; grottoes of Apollo and Pan in cliff face below. Cf. Kroll 372b (Theseus and Minotaur; same obverse die); Svoronos, Athènes, pl. 98, 42 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen -. VF, brown and green patina, light porosity. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Virgil M. Brand Collection 7 (Sotheby's, 25 October 1984), lot 348.