386, Lot: 226. Estimate $200. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.51 g, 1h). Helmeted head of Athena right / Two steer heads confronted; ΛE above; all within incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 35 (rev. die γ); HGC 6, 961 var. (letters not noted); CNG 91, lot 261 (same rev. die). Good Fine. Very rare with letters on reverse, Bodenstedt notes four examples, all from the same reverse die, all in museum collections (Berlin, BM, and Karlsruhe).