Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 263. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Tanagra. 457-448 BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.24 g). Boiotian shield / Horse's head left; T-A across upper field; all within incuse square. Traité III 342 = Imhoof-Blumer, Boeotiens, 95. VF, even grey tone, old dig on shield. A fascinating miniature, probably the second known. ($500)

For the reverse of this coin see pour Denyse, p. 52 and pl. 6, 5, and 5A where, due to an error in photography, it is illustrated with the obverse of another coin.