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From the BCD and Gillet Collections

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 499. Estimate $10000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009. 
Sold For $14500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 405-395 BC. AR Stater (12.02 g). Boeotian shield / Facing head of bearded Dionysos facing slightly right, wearing ivy wreath; Θ-E across lower field; all within concave incuse. BCD Boiotia 457 (same rev. die); Myron pl. Γ, 5 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen -; Jameson 1164 (same rev. die); Gillet 903 (this coin). Good VF, toned, die breaks on reverse. Very rare.


Ex BCD Collection (Triton X, 9 January 2007), lot 214; Charles Gillet Collection (photofile), no. 903.