Sale: Triton X, Lot: 215. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 405-395 BC. AR Stater (12.02 g). Boeotian shield / The infant Herakles seated facing, head right, strangling two serpents; Q-E below; all within concave incuse. BCD Boiotia 459; Head, Boeotia p. 41, pl. III, 14 = BMC p. 79, 101, pl. XIV, 7; Myron pl. G, 1-2 (same rev. die); SNG Copenhagen -. Good VF, toned. Rare late issue.

From the BCD Collection.

It is quite possible that this, the latest Herakliskos stater issue, was struck even after the beginning of the Corinthian war, as a special Theban issue to complement the o-5W staters which were already being issued in the name of the Boiotians. The fabric, especially the reverse concavity, of the two coinages is very similar.