Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 421. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 440-425 BC. AR Stater (11.63 g). Boiotian shield / Bearded head of Herakles left, wearing lion's skin headdress; Q-E across lower field; all within square incuse. Head, Boeotia p. 35, class a, pl. III, 2 = BMC p. 73, 49, pl. XIII, 2 (same rev. die); Traité III 236, pl. CC, 5 (same rev. die); Jameson 1161 (same rev. die); Pozzi 1419 = Pozzi (Boutin) 3252 (this coin); Weber 3252 (same rev. die); Gillet 904 (this coin). Good VF, grey tone, darker in the fields. Very rare. ($10,000).

Ex Charles Gillet Collection (photofile), 904; Münzhandlung Basel 10 (15 March 1938), lot 246; Prof. S. Pozzi Collection (Naville-Ars Classica I, 14 March 1921), lot 1419.

An ideally centered coin with a very handsome classical portrait of Herakles, naturally toned to perfection.