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Lesbos, uncertain mint BI 1/12 Stater. Circa 500-440 BC. [ΛEΣ], confronted heads of boars / Quadripartite incuse square. Lazzarini, Contribution, Series IV; HGC 6, 1067; BMC 14-16. 1.12g, 9mm.
Very Fine.
L. Lazzarini, A Contribution to the Study of the Archaic Billion Coinage of Lesbos, Obolos 9 (2010) 83-111, dates these issues - which he categorises as series IV - after 478 BC, the year the island was liberated from Persian rule and associates the legend ΛES with the Lesbian koinòn.
Very Fine.
L. Lazzarini, A Contribution to the Study of the Archaic Billion Coinage of Lesbos, Obolos 9 (2010) 83-111, dates these issues - which he categorises as series IV - after 478 BC, the year the island was liberated from Persian rule and associates the legend ΛES with the Lesbian koinòn.