Extraordinary

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 220. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte (2.55 g, 10h). Head of roaring lion right / Incuse head of cow right; rectangular punch behind. Bodenstedt Em. 13 (unlisted dies); SNG Copenhagen 301; SNG von Aulock 1685; BMC 18-22; Boston MFA 1679-81; Gulbenkian 874-5; Pozzi 2315-6. Superb EF, underlying luster. Extraordinarily sharp strike from fresh dies, a beautiful example.