Sale: Nomos 10, Lot: 46. Estimate CHF1750. Closing Date: Sunday, 17 May 2015. Sold For CHF1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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LESBOS, Mytilene. c. 500 BC. Hekte (Electrum, 9mm, 2.55 g 5). Ram�s head to right; below, rooster feeding to left.
Rev. Lion�s head with open jaws to right; behind, rectangle divided into two squares; all incuse. BMC 7-9. Bodenstedt 16. SNG von Aulock 1688 and 7719. Rare. An attractive pair of animal heads. Rooster�s head off the flan as usual,
otherwise, good extremely fine.
From the Spina Collection, Nomos 7, 15 May 2013, 126 and ex Triton XI, 8 January 2008, 222.