CNG 84, Lot: 624. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 377-326 BC. EL Hekte (10mm, 2.53 g, 11h). Half length bust of Maenad, hair in sphendone, right / Race torch within linear incuse square [in shallow incuse square]. Bodenstedt Em. 92 (dies a/β); SNG Copenhagen 320; Jameson 1478 (same dies). Superb EF.

It has been suggested that the obverse head may represent a female athlete.