Triton XX, Lot: 256. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 478-455 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 2.55 g, 1h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Incuse female head right, wearing sphendone. Bodenstedt Em. 31; HGC 6, 958; SNG von Aulock –; Boston MFA 1691 = Warren 1603; BMC –. Near EF, toned. Extremely rare. One of six known (one in Boston, one the next lot in this sale, and three in CoinArchives: CNG 97, lot 176; NAC 78, 296; and Roma 7, lot 606).

From the MM Collection. Ex Triton XIX (5 January 2016), lot 180.