Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 553. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. Fourrée Stater (9.75 g). Agla-, magistrate. Struck circa 363-338 BC. Boiotian shield / Amphora; grape bunch above, AG-LA across field; all within incuse concave circle. Cf. Hepworth 1; cf. Head, Boeotia p. 64. VF, dark grey tone with some gold hues around the devices, surface deposits under tone, pierced. This variety with grape bunch is unrecorded by Hepworth or Head. ($150)

This is a very interesting ancient forgery which must have been made some years after magistrate AG-LA issued his coins as, up to that time, there were no magistrate staters issued with grapes above as a symbol. Unless of course the "artist" had in mind the Boiotian League staters minted a good thirty years before (see lot 11 above).