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Triton XX, Lot: 257. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 478-455 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 2.57 g, 1h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Incuse female head right, wearing sphendone. Bodenstedt Em. 31; HGC 6, 958; SNG von Aulock –; Boston MFA 1691 = Warren 1603; BMC –. Near EF, lightly toned. Extremely rare. One of six known (one in Boston, the other four in CoinArchives: Triton XIX, lot 180 [the previous lot in this sale]; CNG 97, lot 176; NAC 78, 296; and Roma 7, lot 606).