A group of ancient Greek and Roman coins, comprising an Athenian silver tetradrachm, partly showing the helmeted head of Athena, with her eye in profile, rev. her symbol the owl, with olive-spray and crescent and Greek letters AOE (Athe[ns]), very fine, 4th Century B.C.; a silver tetradrachm of Ptolemy XII of Egypt, 80-51 B.C., good very fine, dated 55/54 B.C. (SNG Copenhagen 394); a billon tetradrachm of Claudius, 41-54 A.D., with Antonia on the reverse, good very fine; seven bronzes of Ptolemaic Egypt; six Roman billon tetradrachms of Alexandria; two Roman denarii, one chipped; and four poor Greek and Roman bronzes (22)

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A group of ancient Greek and Roman coins, comprising an Athenian silver tetradrachm, partly showing the helmeted head of Athena, with her eye in profile, rev. her symbol the owl, with olive-spray and crescent and Greek letters AOE (Athe[ns]), very fine, 4th Century B.C.; a silver tetradrachm of Ptolemy XII of Egypt, 80-51 B.C., good very fine, dated 55/54 B.C. (SNG Copenhagen 394); a billon tetradrachm of Claudius, 41-54 A.D., with Antonia on the reverse, good very fine; seven bronzes of Ptolemaic Egypt; six Roman billon tetradrachms of Alexandria; two Roman denarii, one chipped; and four poor Greek and Roman bronzes (22)

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