Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 438. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 425-395 BC. AR Stater (11.93 g). Early style. Boiotian shield / Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath; Q-E across lower field; all within square incuse. Myron Hoard pl. B, 8-10 (same rev. die); BMC p. 74, 58, pl. XIII, 8; Winterthur 1906 (same rev. die). Good VF, even grey tone. Of artistic merit. ($3000)

Ex Christie's London 8 October 1991, lot 85.