Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 283. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 478-455 BC. EL Hekte (2.48 g, 5h). Bearded head of Silenos facing slightly right / Incuse head of roaring lion left. Bodenstedt Em. 34 (dies a/α); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; SNG von Aulock -; Boston MFA -; de Luynes 2552 (same dies); CNG 63, lot 459. EF, slight die rust on obverse. Well centered and struck. Extremely rare, only the de Luynes example cited by Boehringer.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 141 (10 October 2005), lot 142; Tkalec (9 May 2005), lot 65.