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ATTICA, ATHENS, SILVER TETRADRACHM

£2,500.00

Code: 10502



Ancient Greece, Attica, Athens Circa 454-404 BC. 
Silver Tetradrachm
Obverse: Head of Athena right, with frontal eye, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl
Reverse: Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent to left, AΘE to right; all within incuse square. 
Kroll 8; SNG Copenhagen 31; SNG München 49; Dewing 1611–22; Gulbenkian 519–21. 
25 mm x 24 mm, 17.2 grams.
A superb wonderful example with iridescent tone, showing some crest visible, along with the full neck, good extremely fine and rare with this full strike.