Boeotia. Thebes. Circa 480-460 BC. Stater (Silver, 16 mm, 11.86 g). Boeotian shield, with a rim divided into eight segments. Rev. Incuse square with an anticlockwise mill-sail pattern; at the center, archaic theta with cruciform center. BCD Boiotia 350 (this coin). Pozzi 1407 = Pozzi (Boutin) 3238. SNG Berry 592. SNG Delepierre 1344. A lovely piece with a fine patina, rare thus. Extremely fine.
From the Ravenel Collection, USA, from the BCD Collection, Triton IX, 10 January 2006, 350 and from the collection of John Work Garrett and the Johns Hopkins University, Bank Leu and Numismatic Fine Arts, 16 October 1984, 211, acquired from W. Raymond on 29 September 1921.