288, Lot: 210. Estimate $100. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Methymna. Circa 500/480-460 BC. AR Tritartemorion (5mm, 0.22 g). Facing head of satyr / Incuse square punch. CNG 84, lot 621; Gorny & Mosch 176, lot 1279; G. Hirsch 256, lot 159 = Hauck & Aufhäuser 14, lot 75; otherwise unpublished. EF, lightly toned, minor porosity.

The attribution of this type to Methymna is based on a similar, later issue with a bird and the legend MAΘ on the reverse (Gorny & Mosch 170, lot 1423).