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E-Sale 42  6 Jan 2018
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Lot 268

Estimate: 1000 GBP
Price realized: 1200 GBP
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Uncertain Eastern Satrapy, 'Athenian Series' AR Tetradrachm. Uncertain mint (Mesopotamia or Babylonia), circa 323-240 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right, with profile eye / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent to left, AIΓ to right. Van Alfen, Mechanisms, Group III.E.2, fig. 24; BMC Attica 271; Mitchiner 13c. 17.26g, 22mm, 9h.

Very Fine. Extremely Rare; one of only eleven known specimens, of which six are in museums.

From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.
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