Search


CNG Bidding Platform

Information

Products and Services



Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 630. Estimate $2500. 
Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. 
Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of 10 different Boiotian AR and one AE, all with Grapes as symbol or reverse type.

(a) Federal Coinage. 395-387 BC. AR Stater (11.99 g). As lot 11. BMC p. 36, 42.

(b) Federal Coinage. 395-387 BC. AR Stater (12.07 g). As lot 20. Myron Hoard pl. E, 30. Rare variety.

(c) Federal Coinage. Circa 395-340 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.62 g). As lot 27. Hunterian p. 36, 2, pl. XXXII, 22.

(d) Tanagra. Early-mid 4th century BC. AR Stater (11.79 g). As lot 264. Pozzi 1396 = Pozzi (Boutin) 3218 (this coin). Ex Prof. S. Pozzi Collection (Naville-Ars Classica I, 14 March 1921), lot 1396.

(e) Tanagra. Early-mid 4th century BC. AR Obol (0.87 g). As lot 297. SNG Cop. 227.

(f) Tanagra. Early-mid 4th century BC. AR Obol (0.82 g). As lot 303. SNG Cop 235. Very rare.

(g) Thebes. Circa 425-400 BC. AR Stater (11.53 g). Similar to lot 398 but grape bunch smaller and of different shape. De Luynes 2006 (same rev. die). Overstruck on uncertain type.

(h) Thebes. Circa 425-400 BC. AR Stater (11.82 g). As lot 399. BMC p. 78, 97. Ex Coin Galleries MBS 11 February 1987, lot 84.

The obverse die of this coin provides important die-links to the "vertical club to left" (as lot 400) and the "club above, kantharos to right" (as lot 402) reverses. For the first of these die links see Lepczyk 50 (26 November 1982), lot 963 and for the second, Myron Hoard pl. G, 25.

(i) Thebes. Circa 425-395 BC. AR Hemiobol (0.43 g). As lot 464. SNG Cop. 291.

(j) Thebes. Circa 425-395 BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.19 g). As lot 467. BMC p. 77, 87.

(k) Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. Æ 12mm (2.37 g, 5h). As 521(a). SNG Cop. 371.

Coins average VF condition. Eleven (11) coins in lot. ($2500)