Sale: Nomos 8, Lot: 170. Estimate CHF750.  Closing Date: Monday, 21 October 2013.  Sold For CHF600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. Hekte (Electrum, 9mm, 2.48 g 12), struck c. 450/440 BC. Bald head of Silenos to right, wearing a diadem. Rev. Two opposed ram’s heads with a palemette between them; all within a shallow incuse square. BMC 40. Bodenstedt 37 (e/ε). SNG von Aulock 1700. Clear and well centered. Good very fine.

From a northern European collection.