Triton XIX, Lot: 198. Estimate $750. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 2.58 g, 12h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Rock partridge standing right in linear square within incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 58; HGC 6, 984; SNG von Aulock 1699; Boston MFA –; BMC –. Good VF, lightly toned, reverse slightly off center. Very rare, only five noted by Bodenstedt, four in CoinArchives.

This issue is the only ancient coin type to depict the rock partridge (Alectoris graeca).