Ex Boston Museum of Fine Art, Perkins, and Montagu Collections

5661293.

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 475-465 BC. AR Didrachm (17.5mm, 8.29 g, 11h). Head of Athena right, wearing earring, 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 to left, AΘE to right; all but one leaf of olive sprig within incuse square, the totality within incuse circle. Starr Group II.A, 27 (O25/R26) = Seltman 460 = Boston MFA 1061 = Perkins 302 (this coin); Svoronos, Monnaies, pl. 8, 27; HGC 4, 1617. Old cabinet tone, light porosity, minor edge marks and scuffs, slightly weak strike on obverse. Near EF. Very rare.

Ex Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts VIII, 6 June 1980), lot 158; Catharine Page Perkins Collection, 302 (assembled by E. P. Warren); Sir Hyman Montagu Collection (Greek Part II, Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 15 March 1897), lot 387.