Lot 3560

Description

Attica, Athens, (c.165-42 B.C.), silver drachm, 20 mm, (6.36 g), 'New Style', Eche... and Glau..., magistrates, issued c.138/7, obv. Head of Athena to right, wearing triple-crested Attic helmet decorated with a palmette and a griffin on the bowl, rev. A**QE / ECE / GLIAU* in right and left fields, owl standing facing on Amphora; to right the facing bust of Helios, all within wreath, (S.. Thompson 307a [same dies], HGC 4, 1635 [R]). Nearly very fine and very rare, the reverse struck slightly off centred.

Ex Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Munich uncertain Auction Sale (lot 1372) with marked envelope.

Note the unusual heavy weight of the drachm.