ATTICA. Athens. 2nd-1st centuries BC. AR tetradrachm (30mm, 16.47 gm, 11h). NGC AU 4/5 - 4/5. New Style coinage, ca. 115/4 BC, 2nd month, Metrodorus, Miltiades, and Ermogenes magistrates. Head of Athena right, wearing triple-crested Attic helmet decorated with aphlaston, Pegasus above undecorated upturned cheek flap, protomes of four horses above visor / Α-ΘΕ / MHT/POΔ/POΣ / EPMO/ΓENH/Σ-MIL/TIA/ΔHΣ, owl standing facing on overturned amphora decorated with B (month); grapes on vine in right field, ΣO (engraver) below, all within olive wreath. HGC 4, 1602. Thompson 633e (147/6 BC). From the Historical Scholar Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear, private sale with old dealer tag

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