Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 44. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Federal Coinage. Circa 395-340 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.75 g). Boiotian shield of distinctive style / Kantharos; above, club right; BO-I across lower field; to lower left, vertical crescent facing right; all within incuse circle. SNG Lewis 649; SNG Blackburn 732 (same dies). EF, toned with golden-reddish hues around the devices. Exceptional. ($400)

Ex Spink Zurich 20 (6 October 1986), lot 237 (CHF 925 hammer).