346, Lot: 81. Estimate $100. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Federal Coinage. Circa 220s BC. Æ (17.5mm, 5.11 g, 12h). Head of Demeter or Kore (Persephone) three-quarter face right, wearing corn-wreath / Poseidon, naked, standing left, resting right foot on rock and leaning on trident; to right, ΒΟΙΩΤ[ΩΝ] downward. BCD Boiotia 108 (this coin); HGC 4, 1182. VF, dark brown patina. Overstruck on Æ of Antigonos Gonatas of the type SNG Cop. 1214-1221; the overstrikes are reversed on this coin, which is quite rare.

Ex BCD Collection (Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 108.

The natural thing to expect, bearing in mind the concavity of the Macedonian coins, would be that the heated coin to be overstruck would be placed with its obverse on the anvil die where the new obverse was engraved. Apparently there were exceptions to this rule, probably due to the speed and the carelessness of the operation.