Watch List notes:

ATTICA, Athens. Circa 479/8-475 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 16.77 g, 1h). Head of Athena right, wearing round earring and crested Attic helmet decorated with tiny spiral on the bowl (behind her ear) / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent to left, AΘE to right; all within incuse square. Starr Group I, 5 (O5/R5) = Seltman Group N, 412 (A274/P349 – this coin); HGC 4, 1592. Old cabinet tone, a few metal flaws. VF. Very rare.


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Gemini XIII (6 April 2017), lot 42; Rockefeller University/Dr. Alfred E. Mirsky Collection (Gemini VII, 9 January 2011), lot 367; Charles Seltman Collection.