CNG 102, Lot: 423. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 2.56 g, 4h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Rock partridge standing right in linear square within incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 58; HGC 6, 984. Good VF. Very rare, only five noted by Bodenstedt, five in CoinArchives.

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