Description: Attica, Athens, time of Gallienus (253-268 AD). Helmeted head of Athena right / AΘHNAIΩN; bucranium.

Diameter: AE21 mm

Weight: 4.96 g

Grade: gF/gF

Attribution: Svoronos pl. 99, 26

Commentary: brown patina, some roughness, some deposits

History: In 267 AD the Germanic tribe of Heruli sacked Athens destroying most of the city and reducing it in the future to the fortified area around the Roman Agora.

Article Number: 018-07-01-44287