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Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 250. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 460-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.33 g, 8h). Eastern imitation. Helmeted head of Athena right; c/m: Phoenician S in incuse square / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind; all within incuse square. P.G. van Alfen, "The 'Owls' from the 1989 Syria Hoard with a review of Pre-Macedonian Coinage in Egypt," AJN 14 (2002), pl. 12, 6. Near EF.