Six Examples Known to Bodenstedt

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 228. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 412-378 BC. EL Hekte (2.53 g, 4h). Head of Artemis-Kybele right, hair in sakkos / Head of female left, hair in sakkos, lamp at forehead; all in linear square within shallow incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 68 (dies a/a); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; Boston MFA 1696 (same dies). Good VF, a little die rust. Extremely rare, only 6 examples known to Bodenstedt.

Of the six coins listed by Bodenstedt, four are in museums (Karlsruhe, Boston, ANS, and s’Gravenhage). Only one other has appeared at auction recently: CNG 57 (4 April 2001), lot 478.