Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 534. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. Lot of two fourrée staters. Both coins: 11.20 g. Klion-, magistrate. Struck circa 368-364 BC. Boiotian shield / Amphora; KLI-WN across field; all within incuse concave circle. Cf. Hepworth 71; cf. Head, Boeotia p. 66. Both coins VF. Two (2) coins in lot. ($200)

(a) Ex Superior 12 December 1987, lot 354 (part).

This writer has always sought plated coins, especially if they are in nice condition. They serve very well to illustrate an alternate, in his opinion fascinating, aspect of a particular series and are always useful for stylistic comparisons with their genuine counterparts. Somehow, the forgers of those days could almost never get the style absolutely right and it is not a surprise that many plated coins are found today obviously discarded but without a chisel cut. Unless the person who handled them had practically no tactile and visual experience of similar coins, it was easy to identify them as fakes.