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468. Athens. After 449 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.34 gm). Helmeted head of Athena / Owl standing right. SNG Copenhagen 31. Good VF, test cut. ($250) 474. Athens. Circa 137/136 BC. AR ׳New Style ׳Tetradrachm (16.76 gm). Helmeted head of Athena right / Owl standing right on amphora; Nike driving quadriga to right, uncertain letter on amphora, M H below; all within wreath. Thompson 322; dating per O. Morkholm, ANSMN 29. NearEF. ($350) 469. Athens. Emergency Issue, circa 406404 BC. Fourré Tetradrachm (13.14 gm). Helmeted head of Athena / Owl standing right. Starr pl.XXm, 12; Svoronos pi.15,12-18. VF, test cut, most of silvering missing. Rare.
($200)
470. Athens. Emergency Issue, circa 406404 BC. Fourré Drachm (3.05 gm). Helmeted head of Athena / Owl standing right. Svoronos pl.15,1927. VF, plating broken on edge. Rare. ($150)
471. Athens. After 393 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.15 gm). Helmeted head of Athena right / Owl standing right. SNG Copenhagen 63. Choice EF. ($350)
475. Athens. Circa 125/124 BC. AR ׳New Style ׳Tetradrachm (16.44 gm). Helmeted head of Athena / Owl standing right on amphora; tripod left, Β on amphora, ME below, magistrates ΠΟΛΥΜΩΝ ΑΛΚΕΤΗΣ, ΠΑΤΡΩ; all within wreath. Thompson 466c; dating per O. M0rkholm, ANSMN 29. VF. ($200)
476. Athens. Circa 120-140 AD. JE 12mm (3.00 gm). Bust of Hermes wearing petasos / Winged caduceus. Kroll—; Svoronos pl.92,30-31. Fine, dark green patina, scrapes on reverse. ($75)
477. Athens. Circa 85-70 BC. JE 14mm (4.33 gm). Laureate head of Apollo / Cicada. Kroll 131; Svoronos pl.107,29-35. Fine, brown patina. ($75) 472. Athens. Circa 4th century BC. JE Symbola (Token) (8.35 gm). Helmeted head of Athena left / Large Ψ in incuse square. Cf. Kroll pg.24; Svoronos pl.100,14. Fine, dark green patina. ($100)
A Private Collection of Rare Bronze Coinage from the Island of Salamis - Part II Uie ,Bronze Coinage ofSaùtmis A synopsis by Prof. John H. Kroll
473. Athens. Circa 155/154 BC. AR ׳New Style ׳Tetradrachm (16.80 gm). Helmeted head of Athena right / Owl standing right on amphora; monograms to left and right, caps of the Dioskouroi right; all within wreath. Thompson 62 (same obverse die); dating per O. M0rkholm, ANSMN 29. Toned EF. ($750) Ex CNG XXX (June 11,1994), lot 1247.
Salamis, the large island that almost touches the coast of Attica near the Piraeus and Eleusis, is best remembered for the decisive sea battle that was fought off its shores in 480 BC. Long before this time the island had been taken over by Athens, which populated it with Athenian settlers (cleruchs) and administrated it through an annually appointed governor. Salamis remained an Athenian possession for most of antiquity, so the production of bronze coins connected with the island is most unusual. Obverses of the major issue have an elegant female head, assumed to be that of the nymph Salamis, wearing a Stephane, with a heavy fall of loose hair over her neck. The reverse type is the shield of the Salaminian hero Ajax, with his encased sword positioned on the shield and the legend ΣΑ-ΛΑ on either side. Two examples of this fairly substantial coinage were exca