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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 1635926, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000cd"><font size="4"><b>Attic Owl Tetradrachm</b></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000cd"><font size="4"><b></b></font></span><font size="4">circa =&gt; after 413 B.C.</font></p><p><font size="4">Mint =&gt; uncertain =&gt; in imitation of the contemporary coinage of Athens</font></p><p><font size="4">Diameter: 26.4 mm</font></p><p><font size="4">Weight: 15.2 grams</font></p><p><font size="4">Obverse: head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet ornamented with three olive leaves along the front edge, palmette on bowl, and spiral behind ear, her hair drawn across forehead in parallel curves</font></p><p><font size="4">Reverse: AOE (the first letter represented as a triangle) before owl standing right, head facing, in erect posture, olive sprig and lunar crescent in upper field to left, all within incuse square</font></p><p><font size="4">Reference: cf. Kraay (Archaic and Classical Greek Coins) pp. 73-74 and pl. 12, 204</font></p><p><font size="4">Other: two deep test cuts on owl&#039;s head and wing</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p>[ATTACH]234510.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]234511.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]234512.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]234513.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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