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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 113. Estimate $1000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. 
Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Federal Coinage. Circa 225-171 BC. AR Drachm (5.05 g, 5h). Laureate head of Poseidon right, border of dots / Nike standing left, resting on trident and holding wreath; BOIWTWN downward on right, monogram to left. Head, Boeotia p. 90 corr. (Poseidon not Zeus); SNG Lockett 1771 (this coin). Near EF, lovely old cabinet tone, traces of gold and red iridescence around the reverse devices. Late Hellenistic die-cutting at its best. ($1000)

Ex Numismatic Fine Arts X (17 September 1981), lot 132; R.C. Lockett Collection (Glendining 27 May 1959), lot 1610 (part); Naville-Ars Classica XII (18 October 1926), lot 1383.