160, Lot: 24. Estimate $100. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BOEOTIA, Federal Coinage. Circa 220s BC. Æ 17mm (3.37 g, 7h). Head of Demeter or Kore (Persephone) three-quarter face right, wearing grain wreath / Poseidon, naked, standing left, resting right foot on rock and leaning on trident; to right,
BOIWTWN downward. BCD Boiotia 102 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen 384; BMC p. 41, 81, pl. VI, 8. Good VF, medium brown patina. Overstruck on Æ of Antigonos Gonatas of the type SNG Cop. 1214-1221.
Ex BCD Collection (Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 102.
The obverse of this coin being particularly well struck there are only a few traces of the undertype. On the reverse one can see the horse's nose and foreleg.