Third and Finest Known

Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 285. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 377-326 BC. EL Hekte (2.49 g, 5h). Female head (Leda?) right / Swan standing right, head left, wing raised, within linear square in incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 82 (dies a/- [unlisted rev. die]); Numismatica Ars Classica O, lot 1603; otherwise unpublished. Near EF, some die wear on reverse. Extremely rare, the third, and finest, known.

Ex Tkalec (22 April 2007), lot 71.