Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 532. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 425-395 BC. AR Stater (12.06 g). Later style. Boeotian shield, club across upper half / Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath; all within concave incuse. BCD Boiotia 444 (this coin). Fine, even gray tone. Severe artistic rendering of Dionysos, a rare reverse die.

Ex BCD Collection (Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 444; Frankfurter Münzhandlung 109 (2 December 1963), lot 2110.