Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 509. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (12.22 g). Charo-, magistrate. Struck circa 379-368 BC. Boiotian shield / Amphora; ivy wreaths with berries in upper fields, (archaic X)A-RO across lower field; all within incuse concave circle. Hepworth 95 (same rev. die); Head, Boeotia p. 66; Myron Hoard pl. E, 22 (same rev. die); BMC p. 84, 168, pl. XV, 9 (same rev. die); Pozzi 1446 = Pozzi (Boutin) 3294 (same dies); Hepworth, Epaminondas pl. 3, 11 (this coin). Good VF, even grey tone, small die break on obverse, traces of find patina on reverse. Scarce. ($1000)

Ex Hess-Leu 45 (12 May 1970), lot 181; Naville-Ars Classica XVI (3 July 1933), lot 1168.