Rare Variety

389, Lot: 252. Estimate $300. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.50 g, 8h). Diademed head of Silenos right / Two ram heads butting each other within incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 37 var. (palmette above ram heads); HGC 6, 963 var. (same); Triton XIX, lot 182; CNG E-384, lot 199; CNG E-386, lot 228. VF. Very rare without palmette between ram heads.