Watch List notes:

ANCIENT COINS, Greek, Attica, Athens (c.460-445 BC), Silver Tetradrachm, head of Athena facing right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive-leaves and a palmette, rev AΘE, owl standing right, its head facing, an olive-sprig and crescent behind, all within an incuse square, 16.96g, 12h (Kroll 8; Starr pl. XXII, 8). Of beautiful transitional style with very well-proportioned types, the work of a skilled engraver, likely to have been struck just prior to the mass issues of the later 5th Century, about extremely fine, scarce.

Estimate: £1200-1500