Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 548. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $870. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (12.07 g). (W)ast-, magistrate. Struck circa 390-382 BC. Boeotian shield / Amphora; bucranium above, FA-ΣT across field; all within incuse concave circle. Hepworth 37 (same rev. die as illustration); BCD Boiotia 498 (this coin). VF, toned, light deposits on reverse. Rare.

From Collection C.P.A. Ex BCD Collection (Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 498; Gorny & Mosch 130 (8 March 2004), lot 1187.