Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 548. Closing Date: Monday, 
  9 January 2006. Estimate $500 Sold For $300 

BOIOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Obol (0.80 
g). Theot(i)-, magistrate. Struck circa 363-348 
BC. Boiotian shield, [club left across upper half] 
/ Youthful head of Herakles right, wearing lion's 
skin headdress; QE downward on lower right; all 
within concave field. Head, Boeotia p. 69, pl. V, 
6 = BMC p. 84, 169, pl. XV, 10; SNG Cop. 354-355. 
Good VF, even grey tone, surface roughness. ($500)

The attribution of these abundant QE obols to this 
magistrate is arbitrary. They could belong to the 
much earlier magistrate QE-OG or be an issue of 
the magistrate QE-OP, about five years later. 

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