Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 284. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $1250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 449-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.15 g, 8h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind; all within incuse square; c/m: bucranium within oval incuse. Kroll 8; SNG Copenhagen 31; for c/m: P. van Alfen, “The ‘Owls’ from the 1973 Iraq Hoard” in AJN 12 (2000), p. 12, 17. Good VF, test cut on neck of Athena.