The Famed Epaminondas

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 221. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (12.20 g). Epami(nondas), magistrate. Struck circa 364-362 BC. Boeotian shield / Amphora; rose above, EP-AM/I in two lines across field; all within incuse concave circle. Hepworth, Epaminondas pl. 3, 5 (same rev. die); Hepworth 33 (same rev. die); BCD Boiotia 544 (same rev. die); Head, Boeotia -; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, toned, light scratches under tone, a couple scuffs on obverse.

From the BCD Collection. Ex Spink America 8186 (3 May 1995), lot 466.