Attica. Athens circa 500-485 BC.
Tetradrachm AR

21mm., 17,59g.

Head of Athena with profile eye to right, wearing disc earring, and a crested Attic helmet / [Α]ΘΕ, owl standing to right, head facing the viewer, olive sprig with berry in upper left field, all within incuse square.

very fine

Seltman Group M & G, Asyut Group IV; HGC 4, 1590; cf. E. Pászthory & S. Hurter, “Metallurgische Untersuchungen an archaischen Münzen aus Athen” in SM 124 (November 1981), 11.