Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 398. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 377-326 BC. EL Hekte (2.53 gm, 12h). Head of Athena facing slightly right, wearing triple crested Attic helmet / Head of Hermes right, Petasos hanging behind head. Bodenstedt Em. 86 (dies b/d); BMC Troas pg. 163, 71; SNG Copenhagen 319; SNG von Aulock 1709. EF, small die break on Athena's head. Struck from detailed dies. ($2000)

Bodenstedt (pg. 267) detects the work of this master engraver also on dies of Rhodes (SNR 51 [1972], pl. 6, 70) and perhaps Klazomenai (SNR 45 [1966], pl. I-II).