Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 76. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Federal Coinage. Circa 304-294 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.60 g). Boiotian shield / Amphora; to lower left, vertical crescent facing left; all within incuse square. This variety unpublished in the standard references. Good VF, dark old collection tone. ($500)

Ex Auctiones 8 (27 June 1978), lot 192.

Both the references quoted in the above Auctiones catalogue for this coin correspond in fact to the variety with the crescent horns pointing outwards (see above, lot 75) and not to this coin.