Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 508. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (12.26 g). Charo-, magistrate. Struck circa 379-368 BC. Boiotian shield / Amphora; laurel wreath above, (archaic X)A-RO across field; all within incuse concave circle. Hepworth 93 (same rev. die); Head, Boeotia p. 66, pl. V, 8 = BMC p. 84, 166, pl. XV, 8 (same rev. die); Myron Hoard pl. E, 24; SNG Cop. 353 (same rev. die). Near EF, even grey tone, golden hues around the devices. Well centered and well struck on a large flan. ($750)

Ex Stack's 17 September 1980, lot 109.

Charon was the leader of the successful nationalist insurrection in Thebes in 379 BC (see Hepworth, Epaminondas, p. 39), known to Celator readers as "Operation Petticoat" (see The Celator, vol. 8, no. 1, January 1994).