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Sg2535 of Attica, Athens

Athens Fourée Tetradrachm. Emergency Issue of 406-404 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right / AQE, Owl standing right, head facing. Svoronos plate 15, #12-18; Starr plate XXIII, #12.

Lot No.3838. Fine.

$ 275.

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At the end of the Peloponnesian War, Athens found itself cut off from their silver mines and their treasury exhausted, so they resorted to issuing this emergency issue of silver-plated bronze coins.

It is an important relic of the both the final days of the Peloponnesian Wars, as well as an early example of the economic principles of Ludwig von Mises in regards to fiat money!

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