Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 143. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Federal Coinage. Circa 225-171 BC. AR Drachm (4.87 g, 8h). Laureate head of Poseidon right, border of dots / Nike standing left, resting on trident and holding wreath; BOIWT[WN] downward on left; below wing to right, lyre. Head, Boeotia p. 90 corr. (Poseidon, not Zeus); E. Vlachogianni, "A hoard of coins from Thebes," NomKhron 19 (2000), p. 78 (pl. I), 453 corr. (lyre, not crab); K. Kress 127 (23 October 1963), lot 405. Near EF, medium grey tone. Reverse die of awkward workmanship. ($300)

Although this coin does not share dies with hoard coin 453 in the above reference or with the Kress auction specimen, it is clearly of the same issue and probably from the same hand. The symbol is actually a lyre, as can be seen from the photograph of the Kress coin where, although cursorily engraved, it is fully on the flan.