NEAR EAST or EGYPT. Ca. 5th-4th Centuries BC. AR tetradrachm (25mm, 15.40 gm, 7h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 3/5, brushed. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with three laurel leaves and vine scroll / ΑΘΕ, owl standing right, head facing, olive sprig and crescent moon behind, all within incuse square. P.G. van Alfen, "The 'Owls' from the 1989 Syria Hoard with a review of Pre-Macedonian Coinage in Egypt," AJN 14 (2002), pl. 11, 2. Well struck in good metal from an obverse die of pleasing "eastern" style.

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