445, Lot: 854. Estimate $200. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 469/5-460 BC. AR “Dekadrachm” (33mm, 34.77 g, 12h). “Schulman” forgery. Head of Athena right, with frontal eye, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace with pendants, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over the visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing facing, wings spread; olive sprig and crescent to upper left, A-Θ-E clockwise around from upper right; all within incuse square. Fischer-Bossert, Athenian, p. 68, dies O1/R1, F47–F57. As made, toned, flan crack.

From the Johnson Family Collection, purchased from William Koonce, 2 May 1969.