Search in Feature Auction


CNG Bidding Platform

Information

Products and Services


Use Old Home Page

Feature Auction
CNG Feature Auction 120

Lot nuber 237

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.14 g, 10h).


CNG Feature Auction 120
Lot: 237.
 Estimated: $ 1 000

Greek, Silver

Sold For $ 850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Go to Live

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.14 g, 10h). Helmeted head of Athena right, with frontal eye / Owl standing right, head facing, closed tail feathers; olive sprig and crescent to left; all within incuse square. Starr pl. XXIII, 3’; Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597. Find patina. Near EF. Well centered, and with a fine style head of Athena. Early post-454 issue.

The certain elements of the style of this tetradrachm, particularly the palmette on Athena’s helmet and the stance of the owl, suggest that this coin was among the earliest issues in the ubiquitous “frontal eye”/classical tetradrachms of the mid-late 5th century at Athens, as these features more closely resemble those found on the later groups of early-mid 5th century issues analyzed by Chester Starr.

The final winners of all CNG 120 lots will be determined at the live online sale that will be held on 11-12 May 2022. CNG 120 – Session One – Greek Coinage (Part 1) will be held Wednesday morning, 11 May 2022 beginning at 9:00 AM ET.

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

We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and the stable previous version of Mozilla Firefox and Chrome.