389, Lot: 249. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.54 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); CNG E-386, lot 226 (same rev. die). VF. Rare with letters on reverse, Bodenstedt notes four examples, all from the same reverse die, all in museum collections (Berlin, BM, and Karlsruhe).