ATTICA, Athens. Circa 454-404 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 17.21 g, 11h). 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, minor die wear on obverse. EF. Struck on a broad flan. Nice crest.

From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 166 (16 May 1990), lot 257.