Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 508. Closing Date: Monday, 
  9 January 2006. Estimate $750 - sold for $1800 

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater 
(12.26 g). Charo-, magistrate. Struck circa 
379-368 BC. Boiotian shield / Amphora; laurel 
wreath above, (archaic X)A-RO across field; all 
within incuse concave circle. Hepworth 93 (same 
rev. die); Head, Boeotia p. 66, pl. V, 8 = BMC p. 
84, 166, pl. XV, 8 (same rev. die); Myron Hoard 
pl. E, 24; SNG Cop. 353 (same rev. die). Near EF, 
even grey tone, golden hues around the devices. 
Well centered and well struck on a large flan. ($750)

Ex Stack's 17 September 1980, lot 109.

Charon was the leader of the successful 
nationalist insurrection in Thebes in 379 BC (see 
Hepworth, Epaminondas, p. 39), known to Celator 
readers as "Operation Petticoat" (see The Celator, 
vol. 8, no. 1, January 1994).

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From Triton IX; realized prices do not include the 15% buyers fee.

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