Exceptional Haliartos

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 126. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Haliartos. Circa 400-375 BC. AR Stater (12.25 g, 12h). Boeotian shield adorned with upright trident / Poseidon, nude, advancing right, extending right hand and brandishing trident in his left; ΑRΙ−ΑR-Τ−ΙΟ−Ν clockwise around from lower left; all within concave circle. BCD Boiotia 164 (same rev. die); SNG Copenhagen -; Head, Boeotia p. 46, pl. IV, 3 = Imhoof-Blumer, Münzkunde, 19, pl. IX, 3 (same rev. die); BMC 11 = Traité III 296 (same rev. die); Gillet Collection (photofile) 899 = de Sartiges 244 (same rev. die). VF, toned, areas of roughness, minor delaminations on edge. Very rare, and exceptional for type, more detail than the best BCD example.