Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 171. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Koroneia. Circa 400-350 BC. Lot of two AR Obols. Both coins: Boiotian shield / Ethnic across field, gorgoneion without protruding tongue; all in incuse circle. Varieties: (a) 0.86 g. Ethnic as (K retrograde)-O. SNG Cop. 185 (same rev. die); SNG Lockett 1718 = Pozzi 1372 = Pozzi (Boutin) 3186 (this coin). Rare // (b) 0.78 g. Ethnic as K-O; gorgon stylistically more developed. Head, Boeotia p. 45; Dewing 1487 (same rev. die). Rare. Both coins VF. Two (2) coins in lot. ($500)

(a) Ex Dr. J.S. Wilkinson Collection (Malter 49, 15 November 1992), lot 405; R.C. Lockett Collection (Glendining 27 May 1959), lot 1570 (part); Prof. S. Pozzi Collection (Naville-Ars Classica I, 14 March 1921), lot 1372. (b) Ex Münzhandlung Basel 8 (22 March 1937), lot 282.