Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 80. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Federal Coinage. Circa 300-250 BC. Lot of four AE, illustrating the range of styles, weights, and flans of the series. All coins: Boiotian shield / Ornamented trident upward, with straight crossbar; BOIWTWN upward on left, dolphin upward on right. Varieties: (a) Æ 12mm (2.77 g). Small, thick, flat flan; compact design that fits perfectly in the available area. Neat shield of high relief. Tiny letters and a somewhat elongated trident on an almost flat field. Head, Boeotia p. 90, pl. VI, 9 = BMC p. 43, 108, pl. IV, 12 // (b) Æ 12mm (1.95 g). Broad, thin, concave flan; large design that barely fits into the available area. Shield of low relief, trident of simple, elegant design and decoration. Head, Boeotia p. 90; SNG Cop. 179; SNG Christomanos 803-804 // (c) Æ 12mm (1.50 g). Broad, thin, concave flan; small design that fits well in the available area. Well centered but of more crude design than (a) and (b). Head, Boeotia p. 90; SNG Christomanos 807-809; Weber 3208 // (d) Æ 13mm (2.12 g). Broad, thick, flat flan; large design of simple, crude style. SNG Christomanos 810. Coin (a) EF, (b) and (c) VF, (d) Fine. Four (4) coins in lot. ($200)

Such variety suggests not only that more than one mint may have been responsible for these coinages but also that they were not all struck during the same period.