Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 250. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Tanagra. 479-475 BC. AR Drachm (6.12 g). Boiotian shield, horizontal T facing inward in one opening / Square incuse with Maltese cross pattern in relief; T in two opposing incuse sections. Head, Boeotia p. 16, iv, pl. I, 6 = BMC 6, pl. IX, 9 = Traité I 1358; SNG Cop. 217; SNG Fitzwilliam 2885; Asyut 249 (this coin). EF, typical Asyut light golden grey tone. ($750)

Ex Asyut Hoard, 249.

This was one of the latest coins in the Asyut hoard and therefore one could argue that it can be dated accurately between the battle of Plataiai and the burial of the hoard, assuming of course that the new reverse design was introduced after the departure of the Persians.