CoinsGreek4th century BCE
Hekte of Mytilene, Lesbos
377 - 326 BCE
Description
Obv.: Head of the young Dionysos, beardless, with short curly hair, wearing an ivi-wreath with six leaves and berries to r. Rev.: Youthful head to r., wearing a head band with a small horn, surrounded by a linear square.
Dimensions
2.54g
Provenance
[Wayte Raymond] 13 January 1921, sold; to John Work Garrett (1872-1942) bequeathed; to John Hopkins University (1942) sold; by mail bid auction by Numismatic Fine Arts, Inc. and Bank Leu AG, "The Johns Hopkins University, The Garrett Collection, Part III" March 29, 1985 lot 79; to Jane Ayer Scott, Newton MA (1985-2008) by inheritance; to her husband Wellington F. Scott III, (2008-2010), gift; to The Harvard Art Museums, 2010.
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