190, Lot: 53. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Federal Coinage. Circa 395-340 BC. AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.38 g). Boeotian shield / Kantharos; club above; crescent (partially erased) to right. BCD Boiotia 41; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, toned.

There are also examples known with the crescent symbol erased on the actual die. This particular case of ancient tampering with a coin's surface for a particular purpose could be thought of as the Greek predecessor to the Roman Damnatio Memoriae, but here the erased entity is the symbol of a city rather than the portrait of an Emperor.