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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Athens| > GB93816
Athens, Attica, Greece, c. 307 - 300 B.C.
|Athens|, |Athens,| |Attica,| |Greece,| |c.| |307| |-| |300| |B.C.|, The designs of the early Athenian bronzes were apparently copied from the fractions that they replaced. This coin has a similar design to the silver tetrobol. Later bronzes had much lower value, in relation to their size.
GB93816. Bronze AE 15, Kroll 50; Svoronos pl. 22, 85 - 88; SNG Cop 94: HGC 4 1719 (S), VF, tight flan, obverse a little off center, porosity, Athens mint, weight 3.838g, maximum diameter 14.9mm, die axis 0o, c. 307 - 300 B.C.; obverse helmeted head of Athena right, crested Corinthian helmet ornamented with a snake; reverse owl standing left, head turned facing, wings closed, A-ΘH divided across fields from right to left (retrograde, as usual for the type), all within olive wreath; from the Errett Bishop Collection; very scarce; SOLD




  






REFERENCES|

de Callataÿ, F. "Le monnayage d'argent au type d'Athéna Parthénos émis au nom des Ainianes" in Obolos 7.
Houghton, A. "The Seleucid Mint of Mallus And the Cult Figure of Athena Magarsia" in Studies Mildenberg.
Imhoof-Blumer, F. "Die Flügelgestalten der Athena und Nike auf Münzen" in NZ III (1871)., pp. 1 - 50.

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