Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 297. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Confederate coinage. Circa 378/1-335 BC. AR Stater (12.22 gm, 3 or 9h). Psaro-, magistrate. Boeotian shield / Amphora between two ivy foliages with fruit; YA-RO across lower field. Hepworth 95 (same dies as plate coin); BMC Central Greece pg. 84, 168; SNG Copenhagen 353 var. (no foliage); Pozzi 3294 (same reverse die); Winterthur 1919 (same reverse die); Dewing 1514 (same reverse die). EF, small die breaks on obverse. Wonderful reverse strike from a fresh die. ($2000)

In his article on the Boeotian magistrate coinage, Hepworth notes that this particular issue “is unsurpassed artistically in the entire magistrate series.”