Watch List notes:

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 2.58 g, 12h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Rock partridge standing right in linear square within incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 58; HGC 6, 984; SNG von Aulock 1699; Boston MFA –; BMC –. Good VF, lightly toned, reverse slightly off center. Very rare, only five noted by Bodenstedt, six in CoinArchives.


From the MM Collection. Ex Triton XIX (5 January 2016), lot 198.

This issue is the only ancient coin type to depict the rock partridge (Alectoris graeca).