Stater

Features

Issuer	Thebes (Boeotia)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	425 BC - 395 BC
Value	Stater (2)
Currency	Aeginetic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	12.01 g
Diameter	22 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 566964
References	BCD Boiotia# 456 Classical Numismatic Group (publisher); 2006. Triton IX / Auction IX: The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Boiotia. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. , SNG Lockett# 1748 Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Richard Cyril Lockett. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume III - The Lockett Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). , Traité III# 264 Ernest Babelon; 1914. Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines / Partie 2.3. Description historique: Comprenant les monnaies de la Grèce centrale et méridionale aux Ve et IVe siècles avant J.-C.. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France. , SNG Delepierre# 1366 Hélène Nicolet-Pierre, Georges Le Rider; 1983. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, France / Volume 1. Bibliothèque nationale de France: Collection Jean et Marie Delepierre. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France. , Pozzi# 1437 Naville & Cie (publisher); 1920. Monnaies grecques antiques: Provenant de la collection de feu le prof. S. Pozzi = Ancient Greek coins. Naville & Cie, Luzern, Switzerland. , Pozzi-Boutin# 3260 Serge Boutin; 1992. Catalogue des monnaies grecques antiques de l'ancienne collection Pozzi. Le Louis d'or, Monaco, Monaco (3 volumes). , HGC 4# 1327 Oliver D. Hoover; 2014. Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Greece / Volume 4: Achaia Phthiotis, Ainis, Magnesia, Akarnania, Aitolia, Lokris, Phokis, Boiotia, Euboia, Attica, Megaris, and Corinthia : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. , Bement Cabinet# 176 Clarence S. Bement, Thomas Louis Comparette; 1921. A descriptive catalogue of Greek coins selected from the cabinet of Clarence S. Bement, esq. American Numismatic Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. , Bement# 1044 William S. Kundig (ed.); 1924. Collection Clarence S. Bement / Monnaies grecques antiques en or et en argent. Naville & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland (2 volumes).

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Obverse

Boeotian shield.

Reverse

The infant Herakles seated facing, nude and with his head turned to right, strangling two serpents; in field to left, bow.

Script: Greek

Lettering: Θ Ε

Mint

Thebes, Boeotia, modern-day Greece, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (425 BC - 395 BC)						$ 1900	$ 11 000

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 138 Lot 178	18 May 2023	VF	USD 8246.07 (CHF 6500.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 124 Lot 149	23 Jun 2021	VF	USD 32 984.29 (CHF 26 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	CNG Triton IX Lot 456	9 Jan 2006	VF	USD 12 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
From collections of BCD, Olga Knoepke (Glendining 10 Dec 1986, 197); R.C. Lockett (Glendining 27 May 1959, 1594); Clarence Bement (Naville-Ars Classica VI, 28 Jan 1923, 1044); Frank Benson (Sotheby 3 Feb 1909, 516); Montagu (Sotheby 23 Mar 1896, 370)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Triton X Lot 213	9 Jan 2007	VF	USD 10 500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
From the BCD collection; ex Leu 15 (4 May 1976), lot 217; Naville-Ars Classica XIII (27 June 1928), lot 732; Prof. S. Pozzi collection (Naville-Ars Classica I, 14 March 1921), lot 1437
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Mail Bid Sale 72 Lot 625	14 Jun 2006	VF	USD 8000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
From the BCD Collection
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: CNG Electronic Auction 452 Lot 235	18 Sep 2019	F (NGC Choice Fine 4/5 - 4/5)	USD 1900.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Electronic Auction 156 Lot 38	17 Jan 2007	F	USD 1735.00 (+ buyer's premium)
From the BCD Collection
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.