Triton XVII, Lot: 203. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Haliartos. Circa 400-375 BC. AR Stater (20mm, 11.74 g, 12h). Boeotian shield decorated with upward trident in center / Poseidon, naked, advancing right, extending right hand and brandishing trident in his left; ARI-AR-T-IO-N clockwise around from lower left; all within concave circle. BCD Boiotia 164 (same rev. die); Head, Boeotia p. 46, pl. IV, 3 = Imhoof-Blumer, Münzkunde, 19, pl. IX, 3 (same rev. die); SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 11, pl. VII, 16 = Traité III 296, pl. CCII, 33 (same rev. die); Gillet Collection photofile 899 = de Sartiges 244 (same rev. die). VF, dark gray tone, irregular flan, areas of minor roughness.

Ex BCD Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 72, 14 June 2006), lot 575; Leu 7 (9 May 1973), lot 161; H. P. R. Frey (15 April 1955), lot 1083; Münzen und Medaillen AG X (22 June 1951), lot 250.