Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 436. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $26000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 425-395 BC. AR Stater (12.32 g). Early style. Boiotian shield, club across upper half / Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath; Q-E downward on left; all within square incuse. Myron Hoard pl. A, 35; Hess-Leu 24 March 1959, lot 200 (same rev. die). EF, evenly toned, gold and blue iridescence around the obverse devices. Beautifully centered on a large flan. Exceptionally artistic rendering of the head of Dionysos. ($5000)

Ex Vinchon 13 April 1985, lot 274.