Description: Attica, Athens, 87 - 86 BC - time of Mithradatic Wars. Head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian helmet / AΘE; Zeus striding right, hurling thunderbolt, star between two crescents (one above and one below) in lower right field.

Diameter: AE20 mm

Weight: 9,34 g

Grade: gF/gF

Attribution: SNG Cop 307; BMC Attica p. 81, 554

Commentary: scarce; brown patina with some malachite deposits and red spots, thick flan

History: In 87 BC Sulla took Athens, then ruled by a puppet of Mithridates of Pontus, and after the bloody sack the city was almost leveled.

Article Number: 049-05-02-41652