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CNG 100, Lot: 1359. Estimate $300.
Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 390-382 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 12.15 g). Wast-, magistrate. Boeotian shield / Amphora, with ivy branch with four leaves and berries sprouting forth above; FA-ΣT across central field; all within incuse circle. Hepworth 38 (this coin illustrated); BCD Boiotia 496 (this coin); Myron Hoard pl. Δ, 7 (same rev. die); Winterthur 1915 (same rev. die, traces of overcutting also showing); HGC 4, 1330. VF, toned.


Ex BCD Collection (Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 496.

Traces of BO-IΩ (cf. BMC p. 36, 42–7) are visible under the FA-ΣT. The evidence of this recutting supports BCD’s redating of the former series to the period of the Corinthian War to the Peace of Antalkidas, circa 398-387 BC (see BCD Boiotia 6 note).