Watch List notes:

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 17.20 g, 2h). Head of Athena right, with frontal eye, 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 to left, AΘE to right; all within incuse square. Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597; SNG Copenhagen 31; SNG München 49; Dewing 1611–22; Gulbenkian 519–21. Attractively toned. EF. Well centered on a broad flan.


From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex collection of a Northern California Gentleman (Classical Numismatic Group 100, 7 October 2015), lot 1377, purchased from F. Kovacs; Edward Gans Collection (his ticket included).