Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1176. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (12.19 g). Wast-, magistrate. Struck circa 390-382 BC. Boeotian shield / Amphora; above, barley grain right; FA-ΣT across central field; all within concave circle. BCD Boiotia 494-5; Hepworth 36; Myron Hoard pl. Δ, 8-10; SNG Copenhagen 319-20. Good VF, lustrous.

Wastias was the pro-Spartan rival of Androkleidas and was instrumental in the latter's exile and assasination (see below, note to lot 1178).