Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 231. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Pharai. Circa 475-450 BC. AR Stater (11.99 g). Boiotian shield / Square incuse with pattern similar to a mill-sail, the incuse areas forming a cross-like pattern when the square is viewed diagonally; archaic phi in centre. Traité I 1349, pl. XLI, 26; Weber 3219; A. Hess 207 (1 December 1931), lot 418. VF, even grey tone, rare. ($750)

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29 May 1997), lot 311; Dubletten des Staatlichen Münzkabinetts Berlin [Duplicates from the Berlin State Coin Cabinet] (Riechmann XXX, 11 December 1924), lot 561.