Watch List notes:

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.54 g, 7h). Female head right, wearing sphendone / Female and male terminal figures standing confronted; all in linear square within incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 46; HGC 6, 972; SNG von Aulock 7723; BMC 58; Boston MFA 1688; Traité II 2175. Lightly toned. Good VF. Perfectly centered obverse. Very rare, six noted by Bodenstedt, five additional in CoinArchives.


This example has an obverse style much superior to those illustrated in Bodenstedt and in CoinArchives.