Mytilene (BC 521-478) EL 1/6 Stater

ca 570-540 BC. EL 1/6 Stater - Hekte (2.56g). Janiform head, at right a satyr with turned-up nose and long beard, at left a maenad, the hair covered by a sakkos / Female head facing right within trapezoid incuse. Some light contact marks on the reverse. EF.

This is one of the first issues of the city of Mytilene, and is exceptional not only for its early date but also for its extraordinary obverse type. Perhaps the third specimen known.

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City/Mint name:	Mytilene EL
Keywords:	electrum / archaic
References:	Bodenstedt p. 183, E34, pl. 34, 5 and 50 = Traite II 2, col. 2153; SNG Munich 659
Valuation:	Gemini Auc. VI (1/2010), lot 138 ($40,000 + comm)
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