GREEK COINS. LESBOS.
MYTILENE. Hecte, electrum, about 435 BC. EL 2.47 g. Youthful head of river god r., wearing diadem, small horn on forehead. Rev. Within linear square, male head r. with long, pointed beard, crowned with reed; all within shallow incuse square. Bodenstedt 233, Em. 52/28 and pl. 54 e/h (this specimen); SNG von Aulock 7730.
Rare. High relief. Good very fine
Provenance:
Auction Münzhandlung Basel 4 (1935), 801.
Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel - Fixed Price List 350 (1973), 13.