Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 586. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $770. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (12.24 g). Lyki(no)-, magistrate. Struck circa 363-348 BC. Boeotian shield / Amphora; grape bunch on vine above, ΛY-KI across field; all within incuse concave circle. Hepworth 75 (same rev. die as illustration); BCD Boiotia 571 (this coin). Good VF, dark iridescent toning, die rust on obverse. Extremely rare.

From Collection C.P.A. Ex BCD Collection (Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 571.