Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 570. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.21 g). Hi(sm)-, magistrate. Struck circa 363-338 BC. Boiotian shield / Grape bunch on vine, HI across field; all within incuse concave circle. Bérend, Réflexions 37 (this coin); Imhoof-Blumer, Münzkunde, 27. VF, dark grey tone. Probably the second known. ($500)

Ex Thomas Ollive Mabbott Collection (H. Schulman 6-11 June 1969), lot 797.

Imhoof-Blumer (see above ref.) has a 5-page discussion on the only other example of this coin, published in RN 1869, p. 177, pl. VI, 15. He concludes that Hilesion is the most likely mint but at that time comparison material and the numismatic evidence for the dating of the magistrate series was not available. This writer believes that this coin is a fraction of the later magistrate Hism- (and not of the earlier magistrate Hisme-) because of its late fabric and also because the badge (symbol) on the staters of the later Hism- is also a bunch of grapes (see previous lot). Although the magistrate after Hism- issued bronze coins (see lot 572 below), Hism- did not issue any and this was one more reason for him to produce tetartemoria.