Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1177. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (12.08 g). Wast-, magistrate. Struck circa 390-382 BC. Boeotian shield / Amphora, ivy branch with four leaves and berries sprouting forth above; FA-ΣT across central field; all within concave circle. BCD Boiotia 497 (same dies); Hepworth 39 (same rev. die as illustration); Myron Hoard pl. Δ, 6 (same dies); BMC 122; SNG Lockett 1756 (same rev. die). Good VF.

Wastias was the pro-Spartan rival of Androkleidas and was instrumental in the latter's exile and assasination (see below, note to lot 1178).