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Tetradrachm of Athens with head of Athena
Greek
Archaic Period
about 515–510 B.C.
Mint: Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter: 25 mm. Weight: 17.17 gm.
Credit Line
Catharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession Number00.253
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 1055.
DescriptionObverse: Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Athenian helmet with a heavy visor. The hair on her forehead and below neckpiece is in rows of dotted lines. Base of neckpiece dotted and dotted necklace.
Reverse: Owl standing right, head facing.
Olive-spray in upper left corner.
Inscription in Greek.
All within incuse.
Reverse: Owl standing right, head facing.
Olive-spray in upper left corner.
Inscription in Greek.
All within incuse.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Edward Herbert Bunbury Collection; by 1896: with Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 Wellington Street, Strand, London (auction of the Edward Herbert Bunbury Collection, 13 Wellington Street, Strand, London, June 22, 1896, lot 976); probably purchased at Bunbury auction by Edward Perry Warren; 1900: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren