Watch List notes:

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 478-455 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.54 g, 9h). Facing gorgoneion / Incuse lead of lynx facing. Bodenstedt Em. 53.2; HGC 6, 952; SNG von Aulock –; Boston MFA –; BMC –; Traité II 2146; de Luynes 2550. Near EF, lightly toned. Very rare, only two examples recorded by Bodenstedt, 3 others in CoinArchives.


Ex Triton XIX (5 January 2016), lot 178.