201, Lot: 50. Estimate $100. Sold for $105. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Federal Coinage. Circa 220’s BC. Æ 18mm (3.83 g, 1h). Head of Demeter or Kore (Persephone) facing slightly right, wearing wreath of grain ears / Poseidon standing left, right foot on rock, holding trident. BCD Boiotia 100-9. VF, brown patina.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.

This is a well known Boeotian overstrike on an Antigonid bronze. See Kroll pp. 189-190 for the definitive attribution of the undertype to Antigonos Gonatas and p. 205 for dating these coins to the "late 3rd (or early 2nd?) century BC" together with a suggestion that the overstriking took place after the death of Demetrios II in 229. See also E. Vlachogianni, "A hoard of coins from Thebes," NomKhron 19 (2000), pp. 55-113, for the publication of a hoard of these bronzes, updated bibliography and arguments in favor of the overstrike taking place in the 220's BC.