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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 34. Estimate $300. 
Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. 
Sold For $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Federal Coinage. Circa 395-340 BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.23 g). Boiotian shield / Grape bunch on stem; B to left; all within incuse circle. Unpublished in the major references. Good VF, attractive dark cabinet tone. Possibly unique. ($500)

Ex Olga H. Knoepke Collection (Glendining's with Baldwin 10 December 1986), lot 199; Theodor Prowe Collection (Egger 40, 2 May 1912), lot 894.

All the BMC examples of Boiotian tetartemoria of this type have B and O on the reverse whereas on the die of this coin only the letter B was engraved.