Sale: Triton X, Lot: 206. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Stater (12.11 g). Boeotian shield / Amphora; archaic Q-E across field; all within square incuse. BCD Boiotia 373 (same dies); Head, Boeotia p. 29, pl. II, 7 = BMC p. 70, 26; SNG Copenhagen -; Myron pl. A, 24 (same rev. die); Weber 3249 (same dies). EF, lightly toned. Exceptional for issue.

From the BCD Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 148 (27 November 1985), lot 85.

This important issue links the small, archaic style shield with the reverses featuring the large square incuse with the amphora.