Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 265. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Tanagra. Early-mid 4th century BC. AR Stater (11.75 g). Boiotian shield / Forepart of horse right, laurel garland around its neck; T-A flanking head; all within concave circle. Head, Boeotia p. 52, pl. IV, 16 = BMC 29, pl. X, 4; Traité III 344. Good VF, dark toning over traces of patchy old surface corrosion. ($2000)

Ex Leu 33 (3 May 1983), lot 312; Hess-Leu 36 (17 April 1968), lot 165.

Imhoof-Blumer, Münzkunde, p. 381 thinks that the garland may be celebrating a victory in a chariot race or other competition involving horses.