Sale: Triton X, Lot: 231. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 455-449 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.02 g, 10h). Transitional type. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / AQE, owl standing right, head facing, with spread tail feathers; olive sprig and crescent behind; all within incuse square. Starr group V.A, series 2, 166 (O142/R156); Svoronos, Monnaies, pl. 10, 12 (same dies); Dewing -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Berry 469 (same dies). Near EF, even gray tone. Well struck on good metal.