Sale: Triton X, Lot: 283. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1210. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 454-428/7 BC. EL Hekte (2.53 g, 12h). Diademed female head facing slightly right / Bull's head left; M above. Bodenstedt Em. 44 (dies a/ ); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; Boston MFA -; BMC 50 (same dies). VF. Struck with fresh dies. Extremely rare, Bodenstedt recorded only 6 examples, all but one in museum collections.

From the David Herman Collection. Ex Triton VIII (11 January 2005), lot 396.