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Triton XXIV

Lot nuber 521

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 17.16 g, 8h).


Triton XXIV
Lot: 521.
 Estimated: $ 1 500

Greek, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

Sold For $ 900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23.5mm, 17.16 g, 8h). Head of Athena right, with frontal eye, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent to left, AΘE to right; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597; SNG Copenhagen 31; SNG München 49; Dewing 1611–22; Gulbenkian 519–21. Lightly toned, with some iridescence around the devices, slight die wear. Superb EF.

From the William H. Birkinshaw Collection. Ex Stack’s Bowers Galleries (8 January 2016), lot 30072 (hammer $3000).

This superb owl is almost certainly among the latest of the famous frontal-eye series, as the depiction of the eye here is verging on being in profile, as it appears on all the subsequent series of Athenian coinage.

The final winners of all Triton XXIV lots will be determined during the live online sale that will be held on 19-20 January 2021. This lot is in Session Two, which begins 19 January 2021 at 2 PM ET.

Winning bids are subject to a 20% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 22.50% for all others.

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