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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Judaea & Palestine| > SH94516
Levant or Egypt, Imitative Athenian Type Tetradrachm, c. 450 - 350 B.C.
|Judaea| |&| |Palestine|, |Levant| |or| |Egypt,| |Imitative| |Athenian| |Type| |Tetradrachm,| |c.| |450| |-| |350| |B.C.|, From Mesopotamia, across the Levante and Arabia, to Egypt, Persian satraps, Egyptian pharaohs, and local rulers struck imitative Athenian type tetradrachms. Some were struck with styles much different from the Athenian originals. Some included monograms or inscriptions in Aramaic or other local scripts. The style of this coin is unusual enough that it undoubtedly an imitative. An old surface find brought over with the family when they immigrated to the United States from Jordan.
SH94516. Silver tetradrachm, Syrian Hoard pl. 6, 103 ff.; cf. SNG Cop 40; Svoronos Athens pl. 17, 18; HGC 4 1597, VF, high relief, tight flan, dark patina on all but the highest part of the obverse, unusual style, unofficial mint, weight 13.982g, maximum diameter 24.6mm, die axis 270o, c. 450 - 350 B.C.; obverse head of Athena right, almond shaped eye, crested helmet with olive leaves and floral scroll, wire necklace, round earring, hair in parallel curves into ear; reverse owl standing right, head facing, erect in posture, olive sprig and crescent left, AΘΕ downward on right, all within incuse square; from the Ray Nouri Collection; SOLD



  






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