Seventh Known
389, Lot: 247. Estimate $500. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 478-455 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 2.52 g, 2h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Incuse female head right, wearing sphendone. Bodenstedt Em. 31; HGC 6, 958; Boston MFA 1691 = Warren 1603. VF, toned. Extremely rare. One of seven known (the others: one in Boston, two in the current Triton sale, and three in CoinArchives: CNG 97, lot 176; NAC 78, 296; and Roma 7, lot 606).