Boeotia, Thebes, temp. Epaminondas, silver Stater, c. 364-362 BC,

Boeotian shield, Rev. ΕΠ-ΠΑ, amphora, small Boeotian shield above, 12.15g,

(Hepworth, Epaminondas, pl. 3, 4; Hepworth 35; BCD Boiotia 542; HGC 4, 1333. A scarce and important variety, 

Epaminondas, general, military strategist, and statesman, described by Cicero as “the first man of Greece”.