From the Famed Kunstfreund Collection

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 216. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $42500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395 BC. EL Hemidrachm (3.03 g, 6h). Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath / The infant Herakles seated facing, strangling two serpents; Q-[E] across field; all within incuse square. BCD Boiotia 470 var. (position of ethnic); Head, Boeotia -; SNG Copenhagen 302 var. (same); Traité III 259 var. (same); Jameson 2063 var. (same); Weber 3265 var. (same obv. die; same). Good VF. Attractive rich yellow electrum. Very rare.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Kunstfreund [Gillet] (Leu & Münzen und Medaillen, 28 May 1974), lot 198.

This coin was probably struck with Persian gold (see Head, Boeotia p. 41). A rare opportunity for the advanced collector to acquire one of the two denominations of the only issue from Thebes (and the whole of Boeotia) in electrum or gold. The smaller denomination is so rare that it has only been offered for sale once (Hess, 14 April 1954, lot 111).