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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 390-380. Tetradrachm (Silver, 23mm, 17.18 g 10). Head of Athena with profile eye to right, wearing crested Attic helmet adorned with three olive leaves and palmette, round earring and pearl necklace. Rev. AΘE Owl standing to right, head facing the viewer; to left, olive sprig and crescent moon; all within incuse square. J. H. Kroll, Athenian Tetradrachm Coinage of the First Half of the Fourth Century BC,, RBN CLVII (2011), pp. 3-26 passim and fig. 1B = pl. I, 1 and pl. I, 2. SNG Munich 90. Svoronos pl. 19, 13-14. A rare variety. Struck on a tight flan, otherwise, good very fine.
From the collection of the Landolt Family, Zurich, mainly formed in the early to mid 20th century.
This is quite an outstanding early profile eye tetradrachm: the head has an almost archaistic character, as if the engraver was deliberately harking back to the style of the late 6th and earliest 5th centuries. The vast majority of Athenian tetradrachms of the 4th century come from the great re-coinage, are struck on folded flans and are usually misshapen. Coins like the present one, struck on a fresh flan earlier in the century, are much rarer, primarily because all those issues were called in and restruck in 353 (see the full discussion in Kroll, cited above).
From the collection of the Landolt Family, Zurich, mainly formed in the early to mid 20th century.
This is quite an outstanding early profile eye tetradrachm: the head has an almost archaistic character, as if the engraver was deliberately harking back to the style of the late 6th and earliest 5th centuries. The vast majority of Athenian tetradrachms of the 4th century come from the great re-coinage, are struck on folded flans and are usually misshapen. Coins like the present one, struck on a fresh flan earlier in the century, are much rarer, primarily because all those issues were called in and restruck in 353 (see the full discussion in Kroll, cited above).