Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 160. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Haliartos. Circa 475-450 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.95g). Boiotian shield, rim divided into eight segments, side openings enhanced with crescent-like decorations / Square incuse with anticlockwise mill-sail pattern; refined aspirate in centre. SNG Lockett 1721 = Pozzi 1376 = Pozzi (Boutin) 3191 (this coin). VF, lightly toned and well centered on a full flan. A splendid example of a variety that is probably known by this specimen alone. ($1000)

Ex Dr. J.S. Wilkinson Collection (Malter 49, 15 November 1992), lot 406; R.C. Lockett Collection (Glendining 27 May 1959), lot 1573; Prof. S. Pozzi Collection (Naville-Ars Classica I, 14 March 1921), lot 1376; A. Rhousopoulos Collection (J. Hirsch XIII, 15 May 1905), lot 1712.