Uncertain Eastern Satrapy, 'Athenian Series' AR Tetradrachm. Uncertain mint, circa 323-240 BC. Attic standard. Head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind, AΘE before; all within incuse square. Roma XIV, 346; Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A; Mitchiner 13a; SNG ANS 1. 17.12g, 24mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare
From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.