Mytilene (BC 412-378) EL Hekte - B64

ca 412-378 BC. EL Hekte (2.54g, 10mm). Laureate head of young Apollo 3â„4 facing / Head of an Amazon in Thracian leather helmet with cheek guards to right. gVF. Bodenstedt records four examples of this type - one of which is this coin. A further five examples have appeared in auction. Ex Coll. James et Sneja Velkov, Auc. Jean Vinchon, Paris. 24 (11/1994), lot 138. Ex Bank Leu Auc. 7 (5/1973), lot 220.

The cataloguer of this coin at auction remarks that the obverse is a stylistic copy of the early tetradrachms of Amphipolis. See Kurt Regling, ZfN 33 (1922), p. 48, Anm. 2 and p. 60.

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City/Mint name:	Mytilene EL
Keywords:	electrum / archaic / classical
References:	Bodenstedt 64.3 (this coin)
Valuation:	Sincona Auc. 10 (5/2013), lot 159 (1,300 CHF + comm)
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