Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 61. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Federal Coinage. 338-circa 300 BC. Lot of four AE, illustrating the range of styles, weights, and flans of the series. All coins: Boiotian shield / Ornamented trident upward, with curved crossbar; BOIWTWN upward on left, dolphin upward on right. Cf. Winterthur 1928; McClean 5635, pl. 203, 5. Varieties: (a) Æ 12mm (2.56 g). Small, very thick flan with pronounced concavity on the reverse // (b) Æ 13mm (2.57 g). Slightly larger and thinner flan, concavity not so pronounced // (c) Æ 14mm (2.18 g). Spread and thin flan // (d) Æ 12mm (1.66 g). Small, flan of medium thickness. Coins average VF condition. Four (4) coins in lot. ($200)

(b) Ex Malter 57 (9 April 1994), lot 582 (part). (c) Ex Vecchi FPL May 1981, no. 52.

Although the majority of the ornamented trident bronzes which have the two outside prongs emanating from a curved crossbar must have been struck during the 4th century, it is quite possible that smaller issues were minted at later times, some of them being unofficial.