Triton XX, Lot: 262. Estimate $750. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.55 g, 1h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Confronted rams’ heads; palmette above and below; all within incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 57; HGC 6, 983 corr. (palmettes not noted); SNG von Aulock –; Boston MFA 1703; BMC 43. Near EF, lightly toned. Very rare with two palmettes, only six noted by Bodenstedt, all from a single reverse die, six in CoinArchives.

From the MM Collection. Ex Triton XIX (5 January 2016), lot 197.