Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 413. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Stater (11.53 g). Boiotian shield / Nude Herakles advancing right, holding club in his right hand and bow in his left; (archaic q)-E downward on left, B to lower left; all within square incuse. Head, Boeotia p. 31, pl. II, 8 = BMC p. 70, 29, pl. XII, 1 (same dies); Jameson 1159 (this coin). Near VF, dark tone, obverse encrustation under tone, reverse granularity. Rare early depiction of Herakles. ($1000)

Ex Hess-Leu 14 April 1954, lot 110; R. Jameson Collection, 1159; J. Hirsch XVIII (27 May 1907), lot 2363.