Exceptional

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 133. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (12.30 g). Hike-, magistrate. Struck circa 390-382 BC. Boeotian shield / Amphora, ivy leaf hanging from each handle; above, club right; olive spray to left; HI-KE across field; all within incuse concave circle. BCD Boiotia 487 var. (club left, olive spray below); Hepworth 53 (same rev. die); Head, Boeotia p. 65; Myron Hoard -; BMC -. Choice EF, lustrous, usual die rust on obverse. Very rare variety, not present in the BCD collection.