Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 241. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Plataiai. 387-372 BC. AR Obol (0.80 g). Boiotian shield / PLA, head of Hera right, wearing stephanos. SNG Cop. 214 (cited as "apparently unpublished"); R. Gaettens FPL 47 (November 1961), no. 61. VF, even grey tone, minor porosity, a few minor marks. A charming coin of the highest rarity, perhaps the third known. ($500)

Lucien de Hirsch 1241 = H. Hoffmann 16 January 1882 (Bompois), lot 1082 is not Plataiai but a misidentified obol of Thespiai.