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                                Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 501. Closing Date: Monday, 
                                9 January 2006. BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 
                                BC. AR Stater (11.97 g). Andr(okleidas), 
                                magistrate. Struck circa 390-382 BC.Estimate 
                                $500 Sold For $600 

                              BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater 
                              (11.97 g). Andr(okleidas), magistrate. Struck 
                              circa 390-382 BC. Boiotian shield / Amphora; 
                              wreath above, AN-DR across field; all within 
                              incuse concave circle. Hepworth 3; Head, Boeotia 
                              p. 63; Myron Hoard pl. G, 32 (same rev. die); SNG 
                              Cop. 315 (same dies); Mionnet II p. 100, 16. Good 
                              VF, purple-grey tone, some surface granularity. 
                              Well centered on a large flan. ($500)

                              Ex Waddell FPL 55 (Spring 1992), no. 61.

                              For the role of Androkleidas as one of the leading 
                              Theban nationalists and his eventual exile and 
                              assasination in Athens see Hepworth, Epaminondas, 
                              pp. 38-39. One wonders if the conspicuously large 
                              flans encountered in almost the entire coinage of 
                              this magistrate have some special significance 
                              related to the closing stages of the 
                              power-struggle that was taking place in Thebes 
                              before 382 BC and which culminated in the Spartan 
                              intervention and seizure of the Kadmeia in that 
                              year.








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