400, Lot: 168. Estimate $300. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.52 g, 11h). 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). VF, struck from a worn obverse die. Rare with letters on the reverse: Bodenstedt noted four examples, all from the same reverse die, and all in museum collections (Berlin, BM, and Karlsruhe).