Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 607. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thespiai. Early-mid 4th century BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.88 g). Boiotian shield / Head of Aphrodite Melainis right; to right, vertical crescent facing left; Q-E-S along lower edge below. Head, Boeotia p. 56; BMC 10, pl. XVI, 9; Traité III 366, pl. CCIV, 28; SNG Cop. 403-404; Pozzi 1460 = Pozzi (Boutin) 3322; Weber 3316 (this coin). Good VF, attractive old collection tone. Rare. ($1000)

Ex Virgil M. Brand Collection (Sotheby's London 1 February 1984), lot 146; Sir Hermann Weber Collection, 3316.