Boeotia. Thebes. 367-362 BC. Hemidrachm (Electrum, 12.5 mm, 3.02 g, 12 h). Bearded head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath. Rev. ΘΕ The infant Herakles seated facing, strangling two serpents; all within incuse square. BCD Boiotia 470. BMC 89. Gartland 4–5 corr. (O2/R4). Jameson 2063 (same dies). Kunstfreund 198. SNG Copenhagen 302. SNG Manchester 927 (same dies). Weber 3265 (same dies). Very rare and nicely toned. Some very minor old scratches and some very slight double-striking on the reverse, otherwise, very fine.
Triton XIX, 5 January 2016, 2039. From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 717597 (November 1999), from the BCD Collection (sold privately).
The chronology used here follows Gartland's study of 2013 (while they do not effect his conclusions, there are a number of errors in his die lists). Dionysos and Herakles were the patron gods of Thebes and this extremely rare coin bears them both. Thebes was the only city in Boeotia to issue coins in electrum: hemidrachms and trihemiobols, both of the same type (the smaller piece is so rare that only a single example has ever appeared at public sale).