Unique Variety

Triton XXI, Lot: 464. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (11mm, 2.55 g, 9h). Head of ram left; below, head of eagle right / Incuse head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress; incuse club below. Bodenstedt Em. 21 var. (cock below ram); HGC 6, 947 var. (same); otherwise unpublished with eagle’s head. Good VF, toned. Unique.

Ex Elsen 111 (10 December 2011), lot 131.