440-404 BC Attica Athens Owl Silver Tetradrachm NGC CH AU FULL CREST owl

440-404 BC Attica Athens Owl Silver Tetradrachm NGC CH AU FULL CREST owlThe silver tetradrachms of Athens, which pair the helmeted head of the goddess Athena with the standing figure of her owl, were produced on a very large scale from the mid to late 5th Century B. C. One design element on these coins that almost always is missing or is incomplete is the horse hair crest that adorns Athenas helmet. The broadness of the obverse dies and the comparative narrowness of the planchets assured that most every Athenian

We expect the same kind of upside potential with these newly recovered shipwreck fractional gold

The engraving quality visible in these photographs—crisp helmet details

King Philip III (1598-1621)

We recently bought 2 of these Kellogg $50 Restrikes from a collection out of Florida that’s been off the market for 20 years

This Spanish Gold 4 Escudos was struck during the reign of King Charles II

So this example is one of the nicest CHVF’s on the market

Produced especially for Caesar’s Spanish Triumph in October of 45

The entire fleet was lost

CAC certified (green sticker)

The gold for these coins was mined during the California Gold Rush

this extensive and complex coinage of the Ptolemaic Dynasty has been a challenge for scholars and a delight

The reverse depicts the jugate busts of Ptolemy I and Arsinoë I (Soteroi)