ATTICA, Athens. Circa 475-465 BC. AR Didrachm (17.5mm, 8.29 g, 11h). Near EF.

Triton XXIX
Lot: 174. Estimated: $ 50 000

Greek, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

Sold For $ 110 000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Go to Live

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.


The final winners of all Triton XXIX lots will be determined at the live public sale that will be held on 13-14 January 2026.

Triton XXIX – Session One – Lot 1-301 will be held Tuesday morning, 13 January 2026 beginning at 9:00 AM ET.

Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 25% for all others.

We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and stable previous version of Chrome and Firefox.