Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 552. 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. (a) 9.09 g. Diok-, magistrate. Struck circa 363-338 BC. Boiotian shield / Amphora; DI-OK across field; all within incuse concave circle. Cf. Hepworth 28; cf. Head, Boeotia p. 64 // (b) 10.93 g. As last, but Agla-, magistrate, and AG-LA across field. Cf. Hepworth 1; cf. Head, Boeotia p. 63. Both coins Fine. Two (2) coins in lot. ($150)

(b) Ex Sotheby's London 23 May 1988, lot 109 (part).

The engraving style of these two staters is unusually convincing for plated forgeries. It may therefore be worthwhile running a die comparison test with genuine specimens to find if official dies were used for their production. In case this would prove to be true, Hepworth's assertion in NomKhron 17 (1998) p. 66, 24 and note 29 will be further confirmed.