Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 611. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thespiai. Circa 210 BC. Æ 16mm (3.77 g, 9h). Laureate female (Arsinoe III) head right, wearing modius and veil / Lyre; QESPI-EWN downward on right and left, respectively; all within laurel wreath tying at bottom. Head, Boeotia p. 94, pl. VI, 13 = BMC 14, pl. XVI, 12; SNG Cop. 406-407. Good VF, dark olive patina, area of flat strike on the reverse. ($150)

For the attribution of the obverse portrait to Arsinoe III and for the date of issue of these coins see A. Schachter, "A Note on the Reorganization of the Thespian Museia," NumChron 1961, pp. 67-70.