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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Lesbos| > SH89443
Mytilene, Lesbos, c. 377 - 326 B.C.
|Lesbos|, |Mytilene,| |Lesbos,| |c.| |377| |-| |326| |B.C.|, Mytilene was famous in ancient times for its great output of electrum coins struck from the late 6th through mid - 4th centuries B.C. The usual denomination was the hekte (1/6th stater). Warwick Wroth noted in the British Museum Catalog, "The Sixths of [this Lesbos electrum series] form one of the most beautiful coin-series of the ancient world. This will be evident from a glance."
SH89443. Electrum hekte, Bodenstedt 88 (c/-); HGC 6 1014 corr. (same rev. die, R1); SNG Cop 314; SNGvA 7737; BMC Lesbos p. 162, 65; Traité II 2185, VF, beautiful style, well centered on a tight flan, light toning, scratches, Mytilene mint, weight 2.525g, maximum diameter 10.2mm, die axis 180o, c. 377 - 326 B.C.; obverse head of Persephone right, wreathed in grain, wearing earring; reverse bull butting to left within linear square; Numismatik Naumann auction 72 (2 Dec 2018), lot 131; SOLD











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