Parthia(?), 'Athenian Series' AR Hemidrachm. Hekatompylos(?), circa 246/5-239/8 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; monogram behind / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig, crescent and grape bunch behind, AΘE before. Roma XIV -, cf. 359 (drachm); Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A; SNG ANS -; Mitchiner -, cf. 13e (tetradrachm); N&A -, cf. 13-15 (tetradrachms), and cf. 33 (hemidrachm, grape bunch on obv). 1.79g, 11mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Apparently unique an unpublished.
From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.