Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 494. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (12.19 g). (W)ast-, magistrate. Struck circa 390-382 BC. Boiotian shield / Amphora; above, barley grain right; FA-ST across field; all within incuse concave circle. Hepworth 36; Head, Boeotia p. 64, pl. V, 4 = BMC p. 81, 120, pl. XV, 2; Myron Hoard pl. D, 8-10; SNG Cop. 319-320. Good VF, evenly toned, gold and blue hues around the devices. ($500)

(W)astias was the pro-Spartan rival of Androkleidas and was instrumental in the latter's exile and assasination (see below, note to lot 501).