Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 374. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Stater (12.50 g). Boiotian shield / Amphora; E-(archaic Q) (retrograde) across field; all within square incuse. Head, Boeotia p. 29, pl. II, 6 = BMC p. 70, 24; Myron Hoard pl. A, 22-23; SNG Cop. 267-268; Pozzi 1412 = Pozzi (Boutin) 3246 (this coin). VF, lightly toned with traces of green and red iridesence on the reverse. ($500)

Ex Vinchon 31 March 1981, lot 32 (weight given in error as 12.13 g); Prof. S. Pozzi Collection (Naville-Ars Classica I, 4 April 1921), lot 1412.

The obverse of this coin shows what is probably the earliest concept of the "larger" shield which will feature on all subsequent Theban staters.