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Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 211. Estimate $400. 
Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006. 
Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Orchomenos. Late 5th century-364 BC. Lot of three AR Hemiobols. All coins: Half wheat grain, sprouting end upward / Wheat ear upward. Varieties: (a) 0.33 g, 8h. Ivy leaf downward to upper right / Stem of ear curving to left; E-R across lower field. Head, Boeotia p. 48; SNG Fitzwilliam 2878 // (b) 0.46 g, 4h. Ivy leaf downward to upper left / E-[R?] across lower field. Head, Boeotia p. 48, pl. IV, 11 = BMC 31, pl. VIII, 14 = Traité III 319, pl. CCIII, 19. Rare // (c) 0.28 g, 9h. Ivy leaf downward to upper right / Stem of ear curving to left; E-b across lower field. This variety unpublished in the standard references. All coins VF. Three (3) coins in lot. ($400)

(b) Ex Hess-Leu 45 (12 May 1970), lot 177. (c) Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXVII (29 September 1993), lot 501.