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Auction XXII  7-8 Oct 2021
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Lot 447

Estimate: 750 GBP
Price realized: 800 GBP
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Uncertain Eastern Satrapy, 'Athenian Series' AR Tetradrachm. Uncertain mint, circa 323-240 BC. Attic standard. Head of Athena to right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor, spiral palmette and grape bunch on the bowl / Owl standing to right, head facing; olive sprig, crescent and grape bunch behind, AΘE before; all within incuse square. Roma XIV, 341 corr. (grape bunch on rev.); Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A; N&A 8-9 var. (grape bunch on rev.); Mitchiner -; SNG ANS -. 15.98g, 22mm, 12h.

Good Very Fine. Apparently unpublished; second known (and finest) example with grape bunch on helmet and on reverse.

From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.
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