BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 425-395 BC. AR Stater (21.5mm, 11.78 g). Boeotian shield / The Herakliskos Drakonopnigon: The infant Herakles seated facing, head right, strangling two serpents, one held in each hand; bow to left, club to right, Θ-E below; all within concave incuse. BCD Boiotia 455 (same rev. die); HGC 4, 1327; SNG Copenhagen 303 (same rev. die); Gulbenkian 503 (same rev. die); McClean 5582 (same rev. die); Prospero 361 (this coin). Banker’s mark on obverse. Near EF. Rare.
Ex Nomos 17 (26 October 2018), lot 124; Prospero Collection (New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012), lot 361; G. Hirsch 167 (26 September 1990), lot 334.
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