Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 497. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (12.23 g). (W)ast-, magistrate. Struck circa 390-382 BC. Boiotian shield / Amphora, ivy branch with four leaves and berries sprouting forth above; FA-ST across field; all within incuse concave circle. Hepworth 39 (same rev. die); Head, Boeotia p. 64; Myron Hoard pl. D, 6 (same dies); BMC p. 81, 122; SNG Lockett 1756 (same rev. die). VF, even grey tone, small amount of surface deposit on reverse. ($400)