Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 98. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Federal Coinage. Circa 250 BC. AR Drachm (5.03 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; BMC p. 40, 78; Boston MFA Supp. 92 (same obv. die); Dewing 1515 (same dies). Near EF, even dark grey tone. ($500)