Extensive Offering of Mytilene Electrum
Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 219. Estimate $1000. Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte (2.59 g, 6h). Forepart of bull left / Incuse head of roaring lion left; rectangular punch behind. Bodenstedt Em. 4 (dies a/
a); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 1683 (same dies); SNG Berry 1004 (same dies). Good VF. Very rare, only nine examples recorded by Bodenstedt.