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Rare Variety with Herakles’ Head Facing Left

CNG 103, Lot: 232. Estimate $750.
Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.60 g, 1h). Gorgoneion / Incuse head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin headdress; rectangular punch behind neck. Bodenstedt Em. 19.2, HGC 6, 945. EF, lightly toned, light edge scrape on the reverse. Rare variety with Herakles’ head facing left on the reverse.