Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 100. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Federal Coinage. 220's BC. Æ (4.39 g, 6h). Head of Demeter or Kore (Persephone) three-quarter face right, wearing corn-wreath / Poseidon, naked, standing left, resting right foot on rock and leaning on trident; to right, BOIWT[WN] downward. Head, Boeotia p. 86, pl. VI, 6 = BMC p. 41, 81, pl. VI, 8; SNG Cop. 384. VF, even brown patina. Overstruck on Æ of Antigonos Gonatas of the type SNG Cop. 1214-1221. ($100)

This and the following nine lots are the well known Boiotian overstrikes on the Antigonid bronzes. See Kroll pp. 189-190 for the definitive attribution of the undertype to Antigonos Gonatas and p. 205 for dating these coins to the "late 3rd (or early 2nd?) century B.C." together with a suggestion that the overstriking took place after the death of Demetrios II in 229. See also E. Vlachogianni, "A hoard of coins from Thebes," NomKhron 19 (2000), pp. 55-113, for the publication of a hoard of these bronzes, updated bibliography and arguments in favour of the overstrike taking place in the 220's BC.