Sale: Triton X, Lot: 189. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BOEOTIA, Federal Coinage. Circa 250 BC. AR Drachm (5.08 g, 12h). Head of Demeter or Kore (Persephone) facing slightly right, wearing grain-wreath / Poseidon, naked, standing right, resting on trident and holding dolphin; to left,
BOIWTWN upward; to right, monogram above Boeotian shield. BCD Boiotia 99; Head,
Boeotia p. 86; BMC p. 40, 79; SNG Copenhagen 383; McClean 5617; Dewing 1516-1517. Good VF, lightly toned, a few spots of light encrustation on reverse.
From the BCD Collection.
Struck from the same obverse die as the previous lot.