Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 215. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Orchomenos. Late 5th century-364 BC. Lot of three AR Tritetartemoria or Tritemoria (3/4 obols). All coins: Three wheat grains in a row, sprouting ends upward / Wheel of four spokes. Varieties: (a) 0.61 g. On obverse, ER (retrograde) below grains. This variety unpublished in the standard references // (b) 0.59 g. On obverse, ER (or EP) below grains. Head, Boeotia p. 48 = Imhoof-Blumer, Münzkunde, 44, pl. IX, 8 (line drawing) // (c) 0.62 g. No ethnic. This variety unpublished in the standard references. All coins Fine to VF, and rare. Three (3) coins in lot. ($300)

These wheel fractions of Orchomenos are notoriously difficult to obtain in nice condition.