389, Lot: 274. Estimate $300. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 377-326 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (11mm, 2.54 g, 12h). Wreathed head of Dionysos right / Head of satyr, with full head of hair, facing within linear square. Bodenstedt Em. 90; HGC 6, 1016. Good VF, slight roughness.

From the Kallman Collection, purchased from Colosseum Coin Exchange. Ex Coin Galleries (6 November 1996), lot 22.

Bodenstedt’s emission 90 encompasses a wide array of reverses. While always depicting a satyr, he sometimes has hair, but usually without, and sometimes there are subsidiary symbols in the margins around the satyr’s head.