★ Unique and Unpublished ★

Uncertain Eastern Satrapy, ‘Athenian Series’ AR Tetradrachm. Uncertain mint, circa 323-240 BC. Attic standard. Head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor, a spiral palmette on the bowl, and grape bunch / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig, crescent and grape bunch behind, AΘE before; all within incuse square. Roma XIV, 341 (this coin); Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A; N Mitchiner -; cf. SNG ANS -. 17.14g, 20mm, 9h.

Very Fine. Apparently unique and unpublished with grape bunch on helmet and on reverse.

Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XIV, 21 September 2017, lot 341;
From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.