Parthia(?), 'Athenian Series' AR Didrachm. Hekatompylos(?), circa

Parthia(?), 'Athenian Series' AR Didrachm. Hekatompylos(?), circa 246/5-239/8 BC. Attic standard. Head of Athena to right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl; monogram of Andragoras(?) behind / Owl standing to right, head facing; behind, prow and grape bunch on vine with leaf, AΘE before. Roma XIV, 331; Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A; SNG ANS 6; N&A 43-45; HGC 12, 3. 7.40g, 19mm, 6h.



Extremely Fine. Very Rare.



From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.