ATHENS SILVER TETRADRACHM – NEW STYLE ISSUE OF 152/1 BC WITH SERPENTS SYMBOL FROM THE DEMETRIUS I HOARD AND PUBLISHED IN COIN HOARDS X – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK ATTICA PROVENANCED AND PUBLISHED COIN (Inv. 20956)

$2,750.00

20956. ATTICA. ATHENS. 2nd–1st CENTURIES BC.
Silver “NEW STYLE” Tetradrachm, 16.75 g, 33 mm. Issue ca. 152/1 BC, with two serpents as control symbol.
Obv. Helmeted head of Athena Parthenos right. Rev. AӨE, owl standing right, head facing, two control monograms in fields, serpents in right field, all within wreath.
Thompson, New Style, 85a (same dies).
Published: C. Lorber, “Commerce (‘Demetrius I’ hoard), 2003 (CH 10.301), in O. Hoover, A.R. Meadows, and U. Warterberg, eds., Coin Hoards X: Greek Hoards (New York, 2010), plate 37, no. 78.
Ex Stack’s Bowers 6/22/2021, lot 70056.
NGC CHOICE VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5.