Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 138. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Federal Coinage. Circa 225-171 BC. AR Drachm (4.54 g, 1h). Laureate head of Poseidon right, border of dots / Nike standing left, resting on trident and holding wreath; BOIWTW[N] downward on left; to inner left, short-handled trident upward above G. Head, Boeotia p. 90 corr. (Poseidon, not Zeus); BMC p. 42, 91 corr. (trident not bipennis); McClean 5622, pl. 202, 21 corr. (same); Richard J. Graham Collection (J. Schulman 243, 8 June 1966), lot 1191 (same dies). Near EF, even grey tone. Attractive late Hellenistic depiction of Poseidon. ($500)