ATHENS NEW STYLE SILVER TETRADRACHM – VARIETY UNRECORDED BY THOMPSON – NGC CH VF GREEK ATTICA COIN (Inv. 21599)

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21599. ATTICA. ATHENS. 2nd–1st CENTURIES BC.
Silver “NEW STYLE” Tetradrachm, 16.93 g, 35 mm. Issue of ca. 145/4 BC, under magistrates ΠA, ΔΩ, ΛYΣIA with control symbol “Forepart of Bridled Horse.”
Obv. Helmeted head of Athena Parthenos right. Rev. AӨE, owl standing right, head facing, magistrates’ names in fields, forepart of bridled horse in lower right, E? on amphora, ME in exergue, all within olive wreath.
Thompson, New Style, 165, but obverse 165 unrecorded together with these controls for which cf. Thompson 167a and d.
NGC CH VF, Strike 3/5, Surface 3/5, “brushed,” a variety unknown to Thompson.