Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 414. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Stater (11.94 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; Jameson 1159; Gillet photofile, 900. VF, even grey tone, minor reverse granularity. Rare. ($3000)

Ex Charles Gillet Collection (photofile), 900.