Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 260. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Tanagra. 457-448 BC. AR Hemidrachm (3.12 g). Boiotian shield / Forepart of horse right; T-A across upper field; all within incuse square. SNG Cop. 223; Traité III 336, pl. CCIV, 1; SNG Fitzwilliam 2887 (same rev. die); Weber 3230 (same dies); Ward 480 (this coin); Naville-Ars Classica V (18 June 1923), lot 1896 (same dies); Gustav Philipsen Collection (J. Hirsch XXV, 29 November 1909), lot 874 (same dies). Choice EF, attractively toned, usual die break for this obverse die on shield rim. Probably the finest known of the late Classical Tanagra hemidrachms. ($2000)

Ex John Ward Collection - Metropolitan Museum of Art (Sotheby's Zurich 4 April 1973), lot 399 (CHF 6800 hammer).