Lot 3873
Sale 82 · Important Australian, British & World Coins, Medals, Banknotes, Orders & Decorations
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Coin 1
Coin 2
Description
Boiotia, Boiotian League, Federal Coinage, probably struck at Thebes, (395-340 B.C.), silver hemidrachm, (2.222 and 2.334 grams), obv. Boeotian shield, rev. amphora with letter BO I crescent on either side, above a club, (cf.S.2396, BCD Triton IX, 40 and 42, SNG Fitz. 2966, SNG Cop. 176). Very good - nearly very fine and very scarce. (2)
Ex Coin Galleries, Auction Sale September 10, 2001 (lot 2512 part). Believed to be issued in the years after the Liberation of the Kadmeia. See BCD Triton IX, Sale lots 40-43 and the relevant footnotes for further commentary on these coin types.
- Estimate
- $120
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $80