Ancient Coins: GREEK SILVER: Attica, Athens

AR "New Style" Tetradrachm, 16.96g. 33mm.  c.165-150 B.C.    Head of Athena to right wearing crested helmet decorated with Pegasus. Rev. Owl standing and facing on overturned amphora; monograms of magistrates to left and right(possibly Gorgoinos and Metrodorus); grain ear below.    Thompson 50.  Edge ding and hairline flan crack at 11:00 obverse.    Scarce early issue prior to the introduction of  explicit magistrate names and control letters on the amphora.  

Provenance/Pedigree:
Ex: Frank Sternberg, Zurich, Auction VIII, 1978, lot 79.

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