Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 248. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 550-480 BC. AR Stater (12.16 gm). Boeotian shield, rim divided into twelve compartments / Mill-sail incuse; archaic Q in center. SNG Copenhagen 249; BMC Central Greece pg. 67, 4; Jameson 1157 (this coin). Toned, superb EF. Exceptional. (See color enlargement on plate 7.) ($4000) 

Ex Walter Niggeler Collection (Leu/Münzen und Medaillen, 3-4 December 1965), lot 280; R. Jameson Collection, 1157.