From the BCD and Pozzi Collections

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 213. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $10500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 425-395 BC. AR Stater (11.97 g). Boeotian shield / The infant Herakles seated facing, head right, strangling two serpents; bow to left, Q E below; all within incuse circle. BCD Boiotia 456; Head, Boeotia -; Myron pl. B, 35; SNG Copenhagen -; Traité III 264; Pozzi 1437 = Pozzi (Boutin) 3260 (this coin). Good VF, toned, a few insignificant scratches under tone. Rare.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Leu 15 (4 May 1976), lot 217; Naville-Ars Classica XIII (27 June 1928), lot 732; Prof. S. Pozzi Collection (Naville-Ars Classica I, 14 March 1921), lot 1437.