★ Lovely Owl ★
Attica. Athens circa 449-431 BC. Time of Pericles
Tetradrachm AR
22mm., 17,24g.
Head of Athena with profile eye to right, wearing disc earring, pearl necklace and a crested Attic helmet adorned with three olive leaves and a pi-style palmette / ΑΘΕ, owl standing to right, head facing the viewer, olive sprig with berry and crescent moon in upper left field, all within incuse square.
very fine
Svoronos, Les Monnaies d'Athenes, pl. 10, 13.