Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 620. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $230. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thespiai. Domitian. 81-96 AD. Lot of three Æ. All coins: Head right, legend clockwise around from lower left / Legend QESPI-EwN clockwise around. Varieties: (a) Æ 18mm (4.62 g, 1h). Laureate head; legend: AU DO KAI SE GER / Female standing left, raising right hand; legend begins at upper right. RPC 273.3 = Weber 3326 (this coin). Very rare, RPC lists a total of 4 known, all in public collections except the BCD pieces // (b) Æ 15mm (3.52 g, 10h). Radiate head right; legend: AU DO KAISAR SE GER / Apollo seated right, holding plectrum and lyre; legend begins at lower left. RPC 274.17 (this coin); BMC 31, pl. XVI, 16; SNG Cop. 411 // (c) Æ 15mm (3.12 g, 9h). Same as (b). RPC 274.19 (this coin); BMC 31, pl. XVI; SNG Cop. 411, 16. All coins Fine to Near VF condition. Three (3) coins in lot. ($300)

(a) Ex Virgil M. Brand Collection (Sotheby's London 25 October 1984), lot 345 (part); Sir Hermann Weber Collection, 3326.

(b) and (c) are exactly the same coin but they complement one another as one is better on the obverse and the other has a more clear reverse. These seated Apollo reverses always come with a radiate head on the obverse and were probably meant as a smaller denomination, although the difference in value between them and the standing figure reverses is unclear.