445, Lot: 862. Estimate $100. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Methymna. Circa 500/480-460 BC. Electrotype “Stater” (20mm, 8.45 g, 3h). Unsigned British Museum electrotype by Robert Ready or his sons. Boar standing right on pelleted ground line, head lowered / Helmeted head of Athena right, pelleted square border; all within an incuse square. Head, Guide, Period I.A., –; for prototype: BMC p. 177, 1. As made, toned.

From the Johnson Family Collection, purchased from William Koonce, 2 May 1969.