Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 162. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Haliartos. Circa 475-450 BC. Lot of two AR Obols. Both coins: Boiotian shield / aspirate in incuse square. Varieties: (a) 0.96 g. Head, Boeotia p. 15; BMC 10 // (b) 0.95 g. Larger aspirate of slightly different proportions. Both coins near VF. Very rare. Two (2) coins in lot. ($300)

(a) Ex Nummorum Auctiones (London) 14 (5 February 1999), lot 487. (b) Ex Nomos AG FPL 6 (October 1975), no. 36.