Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 94. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Federal Coinage. Circa 250 BC. AR Drachm (5.04 g, 11h). 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, [B]OIWTWN upward; to right, monogram above Boiotian shield. Head, Boeotia p. 86; BMC p. 40, 75, pl. VI, 6; SNG Cop. 381; SNG Lockett 1774; Jameson 1167 (same dies); McClean 5616, pl. 202, 15. Good VF, even light grey tone, die break on Poseidon's knee. Obverse of fine artistic workmanship. ($500)