400, Lot: 194. Estimate $300. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 377-326 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.54 g, 9h). Wreathed head of Dionysos right / Head of satyr facing, with full head of hair; to lower left, grape bunch; all within linear square. Bodenstedt Em. 90; HGC 6, 1016 corr. (symbols on reverse not noted). VF, some die rust.

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 such as on this specimen.