Description
Circa 300-280 BC. AR nomos or didrachm, 7.50 g, 22 mm. From the Philistion group.
Obv.: head of Athena, wearing Phrygian helmet adorned with griffin, to the left; behind neck guard: Θ.
Rev.: ΥΕΛΗΤΩΝ; lion standing to the right, tearing ram’s head; above: grasshopper to the right between Φ I.
Ref.: HNI 1305; SNG ANS 1361 (same dies); Williams 418 (O206/R296).
Nice toning. Nearly Extremely Fine.
From a French collection acquired prior to WWII, and from the Louis Deglatigny collection, Feuardent 16 November 1937, lot 23.
