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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 

From the BCD, Vierordt, and Philipsen Collections

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 212. Estimate $2000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. 
Sold For $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 425-395 BC. AR Stater (12.12 g). Later style. Boeotian shield / Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath; Q-E across lower field; all within concave incuse. BCD Boiotia 442-3; Head, Boeotia -; Myron pl. B, 6; SNG Copenhagen 284. Good VF, dark iridescent toning around devices.



From the BCD Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 148 (27 November 1985), lot 59; L. Vierordt Collection (Hess Frankfurt, 18 March 1918), lot 444; Gustav Philipsen Collection (J. Hirsch XXV, 29 November 1909), 890.