Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 519. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (12.00 g). Hisme-, magistrate. Struck circa 379-368 BC. Boiotian shield / Amphora; HIS-ME across field; all within incuse concave circle. Hepworth 56 (same rev. die); Head, Boeotia p. 65; Myron Hoard pl. E, 3 (same rev. die); BMC p. 83, 149; SNG Cop. 336 (same rev. die). VF, even grey tone, light graffito (PX) on reverse. Scarce. ($400)