420.  Thebes.  Circa  480-456 BC.  AR Drachm  (5.63 gm). 

Boeotian  shield / Amphora in  incuse square.  

BMC 19;  SNG Cop 261. 
Rare.

In "The  4th Century  BC Magistrate  Coinage of  the 
Boiotian Confederacy,"   in  Numismatica   Khronika  (1998),  Robert Hepworth identified 44  different magistrates and 97  separate varieties from the early  years of the 4th century 
to 335 BC, when  the city was razed  by Alexander the Great.  

The actual  identities of most of  the magistrates remain obscure. However, the  magistrate abbreviated  as EPP A or E 
PAM  has been identified  as the historical  Epaminondas.

CNG Mail bid sale #58, 18 Sept 2001, lot 420.
 
 Lot sold for $925.

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