Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 584. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 315-288 BC. Lot of two Æ. Both coins: Boiotian shield / Ethnic around ornamented trident head; concave field. Varieties: (a) Æ 10mm (1.34 g). Ethnic: QHBAI-WN circular. Head, Boeotia p. 81; BMC p. 88, 208; SNG Cop. 375. Very rare // (b) Æ 11mm (1.39 g). Different style, and ethnic: QHBA-IWN from left to right in two lines. Unpublished(?). Coins VF and Fine, respectively; (b) is overstruck on a Herakles-head right type. Two (2) coins in lot. ($200)

The BMC 207, pl. XVI, 2 coin (cited by Head) is unclear on the reverse, and may be of variety (b). The rarity of these types contrasts strikingly with abundance of the BOIWTWN bronzes which are very plentiful, especially in their standard (no letter or symbol) types.