Sale: Triton X, Lot: 218. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (12.13 g). (W)ast-, magistrate. Struck circa 390-382 BC. Boeotian shield / Amphora; above, barley grain right; FA-ST across field; all within incuse concave circle. Hepworth 36; BCD Boiotia 494-5; Head, Boeotia p. 64, pl. V, 4 = BMC p. 81, 120, pl. XV, 2; Myron pl. D, 8 (same rev. die); SNG Copenhagen 319-320. Good VF, toned.

From the BCD Collection.

W)astias was the pro-Spartan rival of Androkleidas and was instrumental in the latter's exile and assassination.