Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 233. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Pharai. Circa 475-450 BC. AR Drachm (6.06 g). Boiotian shield / Square incuse with anticlockwise mill-sail pattern; archaic phi in centre. Head, Boeotia p. 16, v; Imhoof-Blumer, Münzkunde, 58, pl. IX, 11; SNG Lockett 1728 = Pozzi 1387 = Pozzi (Boutin) 3208 (this coin). VF, lovely old cabinet tone. Extremely rare denomination. ($750)

Ex Kricheldorf XXX (5 April 1976), lot 89; R.C. Lockett Collection (Glendining 27 May 1959), lot 1576; Prof. S. Pozzi Collection (Naville-Ars Classica I, 14 March 1921), lot 1387.