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CNG 84, Lot: 621. Estimate $500.
Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Methymna. Circa 500/480-460 BC. AR Tritartemorion (6mm, 0.26 g). Facing head of satyr / Rough incuse square punch. Gorny & Mosch 176, lot 1279; G. Hirsch 256, lot 159 = Hauck & Aufhäuser 14, lot 75; otherwise unpublished. Good VF, toned. Good metal.


The attribution of this type to Methymna is based on a similar, later issue with a bird and the legend MAΘ on the reverse (Gorny & Mosch 170, lot 1423).