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Triton XX, Lot: 155. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.08 g, 7h). Head of Athena right, wearing round earring, plain 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. EF, toned, underlying luster, a couple minor edge splits. Well centered on a broad flan, with most of crest visible.


From the Dr. Patrick H. C. Tan Collection.