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Triton XXIV  19-20 Jan 2021
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Lot 522

Estimate: 1000 USD
Price realized: 2000 USD
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ATTICA, Athens. Circa 165-42 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33 mm, 16.93 g, 12h). New Style coinage. Hera–, Aristoph–, and Epistr–, magistrates. Struck 136/5 BC. Head of Athena Parthenos right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and triple-crested Attic helmet decorated with the foreparts of four horses above the visor, a Pegasos in flight rightward above the raised earpiece, and a curvilinear ornament on the bowl / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; A-ӨE above HPA/ API-ΣTOΦ/ EΠIΣTP (magistrates' names) in three lines across field; to left, upright club, lion skin, and bowcase; Λ on amphora, ΓΛ below; all within wreath. Thompson 339c–e (same obv. die); HGC 4, 1602; de Luynes 2084 (same obv. die). Lightly toned, underlying luster, light marks, a couple of minor die breaks on obverse. Good VF. Struck on a broad flan.

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