GREEK, Lesbos, Electrum Hekte, c.412 - 378 B.C.

Bodenstedt, in his detailed study of the Phocaean and Lesbian elctrum, dates this type with the uncertain identity with long flowing hair to the first decade of the 4th century B.C. Mytilene was the chief city of Lesbos and was located in the southeast of the island opposite the mainland.

Electrum hekte, Bodenstedt 70 (obv. f/rev. h?) and plate 55; Boston 1707 and pl. 82 (different dies) BMC 104 (same obv die), cf. S 4243-53, gVF/VF, 2.521g, 10.6mm, 225o, Mytilene mint, c. 412 - 378 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Apollo right; reverse female head right with long flowing hair, wearing necklace, within linear square in incuse square.