159, Lot: 80. Estimate $100. Sold for $126. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thespiai. Circa 210 BC. Æ 14 (3.88mm, ). Laureate female (Arsinoe III) head right, wearing modius and veil / Lyre within laurel wreath tyied at bottom. BCD Boiotia 611; SNG Copenhagen 406-7. VF, green patina.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Spink 68 (22 March 1989), lot 78 (part of).

For the attribution of the obverse portrait to Arsinoe III and for the date of issue of these coins see A. Schachter, "A Note on the Reorganization of the Thespian Museia," NC (1961), pp. 67-70.