Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 543. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (12.26 g). Epami(nondas), magistrate. Struck circa 364-362 BC. Boiotian shield / Amphora; rose above, EP-AMI across field; all within incuse concave circle. Hepworth, Epaminondas pl. 3, 3 (same rev. die); Hepworth 32 (same rev. die); Head, Boeotia p. 64, pl. V, 2 = BMC p. 82, 136, pl. XV, 4; Traité III 267 (pl. CCI, 16 - same rev. die). VF, even grey tone, dig on obverse. ($500)

Remnants of the earlier form of the magistrate's name, EP-PA, is visible on the reverse.