ANCIENT ATTICA - HELLENISTIC GREECE

CITY-STATE OF ATHENS, "BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY" & "CRADLE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION"

"NEW STYLE" SILVER TETRADRACHM (119 TO 8 BC?)

COIN CERTIFIED BY NGC VERY FINE
5/5 STRIKE
3/5 SURFACE

OBV: HEAD RIGHT OF THE GODDESS PALLAS ATHENA (PATRONESS OF ATHENS, GODDESS OF WISDOM, WAR, BRAVERY, JUSTICE) WEARING ATTIC HELMET (TRIPLE CRESTED TYPE) WITH CURVILINEAR ORNAMENT ON THE SHELL AND WITH WINGED HORSE (PEGASUS) ORNAMENT ABOVE RAISED EARPIECE AND WITH PROTOMES OF HORSES ABOVE VISOR

REV: WITHIN WREATHOF OLIVE LEAVES A STANDING OWL (GLAUKOS, THE OWL OF ATHENA REPRESENTING WISDOM AND VIGILANCE) RIGHT WITH HEAD FACING STANDING ON A PROSTRATE AMPHORA; LOWER RIGHT GOD HELIOS WITH RADIANT HEAD STANDING FACING IN QUADRIGA CHARIOT; LEGEND "?T?" AT TOP; GREEK LEGENDS WITH NAMES OF MAGISTRATES FLANKING OWL. 

THE SILVER ATHENIAN ATHENA/GLAUCUS TETRADRACHM IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMED OF ANCIENT COINS. THIS TETRADRACHM NEW-STYLE TYPE, OFTEN CALLED A "WREATH BEARER" OR "STEPHANOPHOROS WERE ISSUED BY ATHENS AS A SEMI-INDEPENDENT CITY UNDER ROMAN SUZEREIGNITY.

COIN CONTAINS 16.80 GRAMS OF SILVER

26 MM IN DIAMETER

ATHENS MINT

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