Freeman & Sear - Gemini I, Session 2, Lot: 592

   ATTICA: Athens. AD 264-267. AE drachm (4.58 gm).
   Bust of Athena right in crested Attic helmet, wearing 
   aegis / [AWH]NAIWN, view of the Acropolis from the 
   northwest, in mirror image, showing from left to right 
   stairway leading to the Propylaea (entrance gate), huge 
   bronze statue of Athena standing, and the Erechtheum; to 
   right of stairway, Cave of Apollo and Grotto of Pan. 
   Svoronos pl. 98, 38-43 (same dies). Highly desirable 
   type. Brown patina. Fine 

   Ex Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, gift of Edward Robinson. 

...Sold for $1,000 USD [ approx 760 EUR, 530 GBP ] plus 15% buyers fee. 

Gemini I Auction Closed Jan 11-12, 2005. 

Re-used by permission of Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) 
 and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com).