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Auction 96 14-15 February 2017
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Attica, Athens. Silver Tetradrachm (17.08 g), Ca 165-42 BC. New Style issue. 147/6 BC. Adei… and Helio…, magistrates. Head of Athena right, wearing triple crested Attic helmet decorated with Pegasos springing right. Reverse: A-ΘE, owl standing right, head facing, on overturned amphora; in fields, magistrates' names: AΔ/EI, and HΛIO; in right field, trident head right; MH below; all within laurel wreath. Thompson 127a-b. As struck from buldging, deteriorated dies. Lustrous. Extremely Fine. Estimate Value $1,000 - 1,300
From The Herbert & Aphrodite Rubin Collection;.
The introduction of the Athenian New Style coinage ca. 165 BC was a watershed moment for the development of coinage in Attica and for the wider Hellenistic world. It brought an end to the Classical Athenian owl tetradrachm which had been a staple of international commerce for centuries and established a general fashion for tetradrachms with wreathed reverses that spread through western Asia Minor and Syria in the course of the second century. The new depiction of Athena Parthenos on the obverse was also extremely popular, spawning imitation as far afield as Northern Greece, Sicily, and the Pontic Empire of Mithradates VI.
From The Herbert & Aphrodite Rubin Collection;.
The introduction of the Athenian New Style coinage ca. 165 BC was a watershed moment for the development of coinage in Attica and for the wider Hellenistic world. It brought an end to the Classical Athenian owl tetradrachm which had been a staple of international commerce for centuries and established a general fashion for tetradrachms with wreathed reverses that spread through western Asia Minor and Syria in the course of the second century. The new depiction of Athena Parthenos on the obverse was also extremely popular, spawning imitation as far afield as Northern Greece, Sicily, and the Pontic Empire of Mithradates VI.