384, Lot: 218. Estimate $300. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.53 g, 12h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Rock partridge standing right in linear square within incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 58; HGC 6, 984. VF, some obverse die rust, die breaks on the reverse. Very rare, only five noted by Bodenstedt, six in CoinArchives.

This issue is the only ancient coin type to depict the rock partridge (Alectoris graeca).