Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 127. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Tanagra. Early-mid 4th century BC. AR Stater (12.16 g). Boeotian shield / Forepart of horse right, laurel garland around its neck; T-A across field; below, grape bunch on vine; all within concave circle. BCD Boiotia 264 (same dies); Head, Boeotia p. 52; Traité III 343; SNG Copenhagen 224; SNG Berry 589. Good VF, toned. Well centered and struck, better than the BCD specimen.

Imhoof-Blumer, Münzkunde, p. 381, thinks that the garland may be celebrating a victory in a chariot race or other competition involving horses.