Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 399. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 425-400 BC. AR Stater (11.96 g). Boiotian shield / Amphora; grape bunch on vine to right, Q-E across lower field; all within circular incuse. Head, Boeotia p. 40; Myron Hoard pl. G, 17-18; BMC p. 78, 97; SNG Cop. 306; Traité III 249, pl. CC, 19 = Jameson 1163 (same dies). VF, toned with purple and golden hues around the reverse devices. Attractive. ($500)

Ex Spranger Collection (Sotheby's London 16 April 1985), lot 287.