Lot 2582

Description

Boeotia, Haliartos, (C.400-375 B.C.), silver stater 20mm, (11.74 g), obv. Boeotian shield decorated with upward trident in centre, rev. Poseidon, naked, advancing right, extending right hand and brandishing trident in his left; ARI-AR-T-IO-N clockwise around from lower left; all within concave circle, (S.2415, BCD Boiotia 164 (same rev. die); Head, Boeotia p. 46, pl. IV, 3 = Imhoof-Blumer, M?nzkunde, 19, pl. IX, 3 (same rev. die); SNG Copenhagen ; BMC 11, pl. VII, 16 = Trait? III 296, pl. CCII, 33 (same rev. die); Gillet Collection photofile 899 = de Sartiges 244 (same rev. die, HGC 4, 1196 [R]). Good very fine, dark grey tone, irregular flan, areas of minor roughness, very rare.

Ex CNG Triton XVII (lot 203), January 7, 2014, previously from the BCD Collection CNG Sale 72, 14 June 2006, [lot 575]; Leu 7 (9 May 1973), [lot 161]; the H. P. R. Frey 15 April 1955, [lot 1083] and the Munzen und Medaillen AG, Sale X, 22 June 1951, [lot 250], only three different examples are noted in Coin Archives (including this coin). ^A recent sale of a similar example in Nomos, Auction 33 (9th June 2024), (lot 1163) with an unusual die break over Poseidon;s head realised 17,000 SFr. ^