Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 540. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (12.20 g). Eche-, magistrate. Struck circa 390-382 BC. Boeotian shield / Amphora, ivy leaf hanging from each handle; above, club left; E-XE across field; all within incuse concave circle. Hepworth 49 (this coin illustrated); BCD Boiotia 483 (this coin). VF, attractive light gray toning.

From Collection C.P.A. Ex BCD Collection (Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 483; Dr. George Brauer Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts Fall MBS, 12 October 1988), lot 234.