Thebes, Boeotia, ca 450-440 BC. AR Stater, 11.56 g. 

Boeotian shield.
QEBAION, Herakles, naked, advancing right, carrying off the 
Delphic tripod, wielding club overhead in his right hand; all within square incuse. 

BMC 36; BCD Boiotia 415 var. (A of legend inverted), 
Extremely rare.

From the BCD Collection. Ex UBS 49 (11 September 2000), 
lot 286 (part of); Glendining (10 March 1965), lot 247. 

Estimate: $1,000

with permission of cngcoins.com, June 2006.