Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 247. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Tanagra. 500-480 BC. AR Drachm (5.63 g). Boiotian shield, horizontal T facing inward in one opening, A in the other / Square incuse with clockwise mill-sail pattern. Head, Boeotia p. 12; SNG Lockett 1729. VF, toned, die break on reverse. ($300)

The triangles in the relief portion of the reverse type originally were as in lot 245 above, but three of them have filled in due to reverse die breakages.