Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 230. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Pharai. Circa 475-450 BC. AR Stater (12.11 g). Boiotian shield / Square incuse with anticlockwise mill-sail pattern; large archaic phi in centre. Head, Boeotia p. 15, v, pl. I, 5 = BMC 1, pl. IX, 1; SNG Cop. 209; Pozzi 1385 = Pozzi (Boutin) 3207. Near VF, attractive medium grey tone. Rare. ($750)

Ex Vinchon 22 February 1971, lot 111 (part).

In case a careful reader has noticed that the weights of this and the previous two coins are the same and thinks that this is a typo, the writer assures him that they all weigh exactly the same!