Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 168. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Koroneia. Circa 500-450 BC. AR Hemiobol (0.40 g). Half Boiotian shield / Koppa in incuse square. Head, Boeotia p. 14 = Traité I 1332 = Imhoof-Blumer, Boeotiens, 54 = Mionnet Supp. III p. 511, 50 = Sestini, Lettere e Dissertazioni numismatiche II (1817), p. 20 [Cousinery Collection]. VF, old collection tone, well centered. Extremely rare, perhaps the second known archaic hemiobol of Koroneia (the other now in Berlin). ($500)