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Third and Finest Known

Triton XX, Lot: 255. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (11mm, 2.54 g, 5h). Head of ram right; below, head of hare right / Incuse head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin; rectangular punch below. Bodenstedt Em. 18.20 corr. (misdescribed) = Boston MFA 1671; HGC 6, 943 var. (obv. symbol); SNG von Aulock –; BMC –; NAC 64, lot 829. Near EF. Struck on a broad flan. Extremely rare, the third and finest known.