Watch List notes:

BOEOTIA, Thespiai. Early-mid 4th century BC. AR Stater (22.5mm, 12.02 g). Boeotian shield / Head of Aphrodite Melainis to right; crescents to right and below neck, ΘEΣΠ-IKON flanking neck. BCD Boiotia 605 (this coin); Head, Boeotia p. 56, pl. IV, 20 = BMC 9 (same dies); Boston MFA Supp. 94 (same rev. die); HGC 4, 1397 (this coin illustrated). Good VF, superb old cabinet tone. Very rare.


Ex Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Stack's, 14 January 2008), lot 2169; BCD Collection (Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 605.