Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 165. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Haliartos. Circa 400-375 BC. AR Hemiobol (0.41 g). Half Boiotian shield / Trident downward between A-R; all within concave circle. Traité III 297, pl. CCII, 34 (same dies); Wroth, "Greek Coins acquired by the British Museum in 1901," NumChron 1902, 9 (same dies). VF, even grey tone, minor edge chip (as the Paris specimen). Extremely rare, probably the third known. ($300)

This extremely rare hemiobol is probably contemporary with the above staters as well as the grapes reverse fractions struck by Thebes just before the earliest period of the Magistrate stater issues (see nos. 460ff of this catalogue). The "traces of incuse" mentioned by Wroth are in reality just the outline of the circular die. For such an argument, that would have this coin struck in the first decade of the 4th century, during the Corinthian war, see note on lot 605 below.