Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 425. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 440-425 BC. AR Stater (11.11 g). Boiotian shield / Infant Herakles kneeling facing, strangling two serpents, the one on right arm hangs dead; [(archaic Q)EBAION] above; all within square incuse. Head, Boeotia p. 32, pl. II, 11 = BMC p. 72, 39, pl. XII, 8 (same dies); Myron Hoard pl. A, 28 (same dies); SNG Cop. 280 (same dies); Traité III 231, pl. CXCIX, 30-31 (same rev. die); Boston MFA 1004 (same dies). Near VF, struck on a large flan, minor surface roughness. Rare. ($1000)

Ex Stack's 24 August 1976, lot 1555; Bruun Rasmussen 245 (10 March 1970), lot 630; L. Hamburger 11 June 1930, lot 746; O. Helbing 20 March 1928, lot 245.