Lot 4224

Description

Attica, Athens, silver tetradrachm, (c.165-42 B.C.), 34mm, (16.07 g), New Style coinage, with the monograms of the names which are uncertain, issue struck 186-185 B.C., (revised to 154-153 B.C.), obv. head of Athena Parthenos to right, wearing a triple-crested Attic helmet decorated with a Pegasos in flight rightward above the raised earpiece, rev. owl standing to right, head facing, on amphora, A-**Q*E to left monogram Y**PAR* (magistrates name as a monogram) and caps of the dioscuri below **UGF* in right field all within wreath. (cf.S.2555, Thompson 61 [same obverse die]). Struck on a broad flan, with obverse die cracks and pitting on the reverse, otherwise good fine/very fine and a rare type.