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From the Warren Collection
Ex Boston Museum of Fine Arts

271, Lot: 16. Estimate $750.
Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Obol (8mm, 0.69 g, 5h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet, decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl, earring, and necklace / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig behind, AΘE to right; all within incuse square. Kroll 13; SNG Copenhagen 53-6; SNG München 77-82; Dewing 1606-8; Boston MFA 1071 = Warren 843 (this coin). Near EF, some roughness.


Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Leu 74 (19 October 1998), lot 194; Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts VIII, 6 June 1980), lot 167; Edward P. Warren Collection, no. 843.