Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 92. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Federal Coinage. Circa 250 BC. AR Drachm (5.04 g, 12h). Head of Demeter or Kore (Persephone), three-quarter face right, wearing corn-wreath / Poseidon, naked, standing right, resting on trident and holding dolphin; to left, BOIWTWN upward; to right, monogram above Boiotian shield. Head, Boeotia p. 86, pl. VI, 5 = BMC p. 40, 76, pl. VI, 7; SNG Cop. 381 (same rev. die); SNG Stockholm 1417. VF, even medium grey tone. ($300)

Ex World Wide Coins of California (J. Elmen) IX (29 May 1986), lot 2.

This and the seven other varieties which follow appear to be a relatively short-lived issue which can now be dated a little earlier than was previously thought. A proper die study is needed before the minting order of the eight varieties can be established. They are here catalogued in an order which seems correct to this writer after some dabbling with die links and die breaks but this work has taken into account only a small part of the published specimens - these coins are reasonably plentiful - and could easily be wrong. What is interesting to observe is the differences in style among the various obverses. The obverse of lot 94 seems to be executed by a very gifted artist; the other "hands" seem less accomplished.