Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 488. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (12.19 g). Hike-, magistrate. Struck circa 390-382 BC. Boiotian shield / Amphora; wreath above, HI-KE across field; all within incuse concave circle. Hepworth 54 (this coin illustrated); Head, Boeotia p. 65; Myron Hoard pl. E, 2 (same rev. die); BMC p. 83, 148; SNG Cop. 335 (same rev. die). Good VF, small die break on shield, even grey tone, gold and blue hues around the devices. ($500)

Ex Sotheby's London 12 May 1983, lot 195.