Watch List notes:

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 2.54 g, 2h). Diademed female head facing slightly right / Confronted boars' heads within incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 45; HGC 6, 971. Good VF, lightly toned. Very rare.


Bodenstedt's Emission 45 contains two varieties, with and without a small letter A between the boars' heads, though he does not differentiate them. Both are very rare.