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Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 398. Closing Date: Jan 
10, 2005. LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 377-326 BC. EL 
Hekte (2.53 gm, 12h). Estimate $2000 Sold For 
$1200 

LESBOS, Mytilene. Circa 377-326 BC. EL Hekte (2.53 
gm, 12h). Head of Athena facing slightly right, 
wearing triple crested Attic helmet / Head of 
Hermes right, Petasos hanging behind head. 
Bodenstedt Em. 86 (dies b/d); BMC Troas pg. 163, 
71; SNG Copenhagen 319; SNG von Aulock 1709. EF, 
small die break on Athena's head. Struck from 
detailed dies. ($2000)

Bodenstedt (pg. 267) detects the work of this 
master engraver also on dies of Rhodes (SNR 51 
[1972], pl. 6, 70) and perhaps Klazomenai (SNR 45 
[1966], pl. I-II).

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