CNG ebay - Athens. Emergency Issue Tetradrachm!!!

$460.00   
Jun-21-00

Attica, Athens. Emergency Issue, circa 406-404 BC. AR Fourré
Tetradrachm (12.98 gm). Helmeted head of Athena right / AQE, owl
standing right; olive-sprig and crescent above. Svoronos pl.15,
19-27; Starr pl.XXIII, 12. Fine, approximately 60% plated. Rare
and historically important! 720846

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Auction XXXI (9-10 September 1994),
lot 253.

With their treasury depleted by the ruinous cost of ill-planned
dreams of an empire, the Athenians resorted to an emergency issue
of plated silver tetradrachms. An important relic of the final
days of the Peloponnesian War.