Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 416. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Stater (12.26 g). Boiotian shield / Nude Herakles kneeling right, stringing bow held in his right hand; club to left, (archaic Q)EB-AIO-(N retrograde) clockwise around from above; all within square incuse. Head, Boeotia p. 31, pl. II, 9 var. = BMC p. 71, 30, pl. XII, 2 var. = Traité III 224, pl. CXCIX, 22 var. (same rev. die; no club [earlier die state]); BMC 31; SNG Manchester 922 (same rev. die [partially re-engraved]); Lucien de Hirsch 1248 (same rev. die); Gillet 901 = de Sartiges 249 (this coin). Good VF, even tone, minor reverse encrustation under tone, obverse and reverse die breaks. Very rare. ($10,000)

Ex Kunstfreund [Gillet] (Leu and Münzen und Medaillen 28 May 1974), lot 145; Charles Gillet Collection (photofile), 901; Vicomte de Sartiges Collection, 249; Merzbacher 2 November 1909, lot 2901.

This reverse die must have been highly thought of to be reworked at least twice.