CoinsGreek5th century BCE
Half of a decadrachm of Athens
470 BCE - 460 BCE
Description
Obv.: head of Athena wearing an Attic helmet decorated with olive leaves to r.; the eye is represented frontal. Rev.: lower part of owl, facing, with spread wings
Dimensions
21.11g
Provenance
From the fixed price list of Nomos AG, Zurich, Winter - Spring 2009, lot 52: previusly in the collectio of J.A. Seager, Classical Numismatic Group, Sale 76, 12 September 2007, 3049 and from the Jordan Hoard 1967 (IGCH 1482), published by C.M. Kraay and P.R.S. Moorey, Revue Numismatique (1968) p. 185 no.41 (this coin)
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