Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 415. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $10500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Stater (12.21 g). Boiotian shield / Nude Herakles advancing right, carrying off the Delphic tripod, holding club overhead in his right hand; QEB"IO(N retrograde) downward on left; all within square incuse. Myron Hoard pl. A, 26 (same dies); SNG Cop. 279; Traité III 228, pl. CXCIX, 27 (same rev. die); Boston MFA 1002 = E.P. Warren, A Guide to the Catharine Page Perkins Collection of Greek and Roman Coins, (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1902), 264 (this coin). Good VF, even grey tone on an large flan. Extremely rare and exceptional for issue. ($5000)

Ex Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts VIII, 6 June 1980), lot 147; Catharine Page Perkins Collection, 264.