393, Lot: 66. Estimate $500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 390-382 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 12.08 g). Wast-, magistrate. Boeotian shield / Amphora, with ivy branch with four leaves and berries sprouting forth above; FA-ΣT across central field; all within incuse circle. Hepworth 39 (same rev. die as illustration); BCD Boiotia 497 (same dies); HGC 4, 1330. Good VF.

From the Dr. Lawrence D. Sporty Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 854535 (March 2010).

Wastias was the pro-Spartan rival of Androkleidas and was instrumental in the latter's exile and assassination.