Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 311. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Tanagra. Autonomous issues. 1st century AD. Æ 17 (3.95 g, 12h). Bearded bust of Poimandros right; POIMANDROC clockwise from left around / Hermes Kriophoros standing facing, carrying ram; TANAGR-AIWN clockwise from left around. RPC I 1323.3 = Pozzi (Boutin) 3229 (this coin); Head, Boeotia p. 98; Imhoof-Blumer, Boeotiens, 106 (with line drawing). Near VF, even brown patina. Extremely rare. ($1500)

Ex Prof. S. Pozzi Collection, 3229, with his ticket, which has some additional writing on the back, probably from the next owner.

For Poimandros, the legendary founder of Tanagra and his story as told by Plutarch but set in a "numismatic" background, see A. Schachter, "Horse coins from Tanagra," NumChron 1958, pp. 43-46. This is the third known of these coins and the only one in private hands, the other two being in Paris and Berlin.