Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 174. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Koroneia. Circa 400-350 BC. Lot of two AR Obols. Both coins: Boiotian shield / Head of Athena Itonia in incuse circle. Varieties: (a) 0.88 g. On reverse: O-(K retrograde) across field, head of Athena Itonia three-quarter face right, wearing helmet with three crests. Head, Boeotia p. 45, pl. IV, 2 = BMC 12, pl. VII, 10 (same rev. die); Traité III 283, pl. CCII, 23 // (b) 0.87 g. On reverse: No ethnic, head of Athena to right, wearing crested helmet. Traité III 284, pl. CCII, 24. Both coins Fine, and very rare. Two (2) coins in lot. ($500)

The later obols of Koroneia are rarer than the early (archaic) ones.