Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 282. Estimate $200. Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. Sold For $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BOIOTIA, Tanagra. Early-mid 4th century BC. Lot of three AR Obols. All coins: Boiotian shield / Forepart of horse right, showing only head, neck, and front legs. Varieties: (a) 0.88 g. Shield of distinctive oval shape / [T off flan], A before horse, I
P (?) along horse's mane; all in flat circle. This variety unpublished in the standard references // (b) 0.77 g. TA below horse; all within incuse concave circle with curved edge. Head,
Boeotia p. 52 // (c) 0.79 g. TA below horse,
F before; all within incuse concave circle with curved edge. Head,
Boeotia p. 52 = Mionnet II p. 107; Traité III 351, pl. CCIV, 15 (same rev. die). Rare. All coins Fine to Near VF. Three (3) coins in lot. ($200)
No references were found for the above varieties (a) and (b).