Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 545. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Obol (0.92 g). Ep(aminondas), magistrate. Struck circa 364-362 BC. Boiotian shield, club left across upper half / Youthful head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress; E-P upward on right; all within incuse concave circle. Hepworth, Epaminondas pl. 3, 6; Head, Boeotia p. 69; Imhoof-Blumer, Münzkunde, 91; Weber 3285. VF, attractively toned, small flan split. Scarce. ($500)

Ex Münzen und Medaillen 88 (17 May 1999), lot 170.

Unlike the other two named obols, KL (see lot 535 above) and QE (see lots 547 and 548 below) there is no other magistrate's name starting with EP so the attribution of this obol to the famous Epaminondas is secure.