445, Lot: 116. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 286/5-280/67 BC. AR Tetradrachm (21.5mm, 17.17 g, 8h). Helmeted head of Athena right, ‘quadridigité’ palmette on helmet / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent to left. Nicolet-Pierre & Kroll pl. I, 1–pl. III, 28; Kroll 22; HGC 4, 1600. VF, toned, small area of flat strike on reverse. Attractive for this typically crudely-struck issue.

From a European collection formed prior to the First World War.