Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 570. Closing Date: Monday, 
  9 January 2006. Sold For $300 

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR 
Tetartemorion (0.21 g). Hi(sm)-, magistrate. 
Struck circa 363-338 BC. Boiotian shield / Grape 
bunch on vine, HI across field; all within incuse 
concave circle. Bérend, Réflexions 37 (this coin); 
Imhoof-Blumer, Münzkunde, 27. VF, dark grey tone. 
Probably the second known. ($500)

Ex Thomas Ollive Mabbott Collection (H. Schulman 
6-11 June 1969), lot 797.

Imhoof-Blumer, in RN 1869, p. 177, pl. VI, 15, concludes that 
Hilesion is the most likely mint but at that time comparison 
material and the numismatic evidence for dating the magistrate 
series was not available. We believe that this coin is a fraction 
of the later magistrate Hism- (not the earlier magistrate Hisme-) 
because of its late fabric and also because the symbol on the 
staters of the later Hism- is also a bunch of grapes. Although 
Hism-'s successor issued bronze coins, Hism- himself did not, 
and this would be one more reason for him to produce tetartemoria.

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