Exceptional Silenos Hekte

CNG 94, Lot: 489. Estimate $7500. Sold for $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 478-455 BC. EL Hekte (10mm, 2.52 g, 3h). Bearded head of Silenos facing slightly right / Incuse head of roaring lion left. Bodenstedt Em. 34 (dies a/α); SNG von Aulock –; Boston MFA –; de Luynes 2552 (same dies); Triton XII, lot 283 (same dies); CNG 63, lot 459. EF, toned. Exceptional.