Sale: Nomos 2, Lot: 72. Estimate CHF2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 17 May 2010.  Sold For CHF2700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Tanagra. Early-mid 4th century BC. Stater (Silver, 12.33 g). Boeotian shield. Rev. ΤΑ Forepart of leaping horse to right, with garland of laurel leaves around his neck. BCD Boiotia 265. BMC 29. Traité II, 3, coll. 299-300, 344. An unusually attractive and well preserved example, much finer than the BCD piece. Bright and lustrous. Flan slightly oddly shaped, otherwise, one of the finest known examples, extremely fine.