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Auction 131  22-25 Nov 2022
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Lot 1731

Estimate: 5000 AUD
Price realized: 16 500 AUD
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Boiotia, Thebes, (c.440-425 B.C.), silver stater (11.60 g), obv. Boiotian shield, rev. bearded head of Herakles to right, wearing lion's skin headdress, the mane windswept to rear, [Q]-E across lower field, all within square incuse, (S.2382, BCD 420 [Triton IX same dies], Head, Boeotia p. 35, class a = BMC p. 73, 48, pl. XIII, 1 [same rev. die], Myron Hoard pl. A, 33 [same dies], Traite III 235, pl. CC, 4 = de Luynes 1998 [same dies], Jameson 1160 [same dies]; Gulbenkian 499 [same dies], Lucien de Hirsch 1250, HGC 4, 1321). Good very fine/extremely fine, slightly off centred on reverse, surface granularity on obverse.

Ex Dr Jacob Hirsch Collection, Leu-Hess Auction Sale April 16, 1957 (lot 209) and later CNG Mail Bid Sale 69, June 8, 2005 (lot 284) with CNG ticket and collector's detailed description in a flip. Only BCD, Gillet and this coin in Coin Archives all from the same dies.

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