Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 324. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. 525-480 BC. AR Drachm (5.97 g). Boiotian shield / Square incuse with a recessed large triangle (divided by a line), a small triangle, and a square (divided by a line). BMC p. 32, 5; SNG Cop. 243; Boston MFA 980 = Warren 761 (this coin). VF, attractive grey tone with golden iridescence around the devices. ($750)

Ex Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts IX, 10 December 1980), lot 199; Warren Collection, 761; Greenwell Collection; Distinguished Artist Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge 11 July 1899), lot 98.