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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pprp, post: 7470567, member: 94602&quot;]I consider &quot;unique&quot; as a temporary feature before the second one pops up. It is, however, a wonderful experience to be the first one to attribute or describe an unknown type.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Lesbos, Mytilene</b>, Hekte. Female head to right, wearing pendant earring and necklace, hair tied up behind / Head of eagle to left; linear square border not visible, either not in the design or the flan is short. Mytilenean hektes of this period usually feature in the obverse the head of a male or of a female, sometimes a deity or a lesser deity (pan or a nymph). The reverse is at times copying a depiction from famous coins of other cities of the Greek world. For example, Bod.88 features a bull butting left, pointing to the coinage of Thurium; Bod.104 depicts an eagle standing to the right with the head turned to the left- a reference to the coinage of Elis, Olympia (cf. BMC 68, 94). In this coin, the obverse has a very similar design to Bod.69; the style of this coin looks cruder, although it is difficult to compare because it is quite worn in the high points. The reverse is a direct reference to the Cypriot staters of Paphos, under the rule of Pnytos (cf. Traité II 1280; Weber 7702; Tziambazis 75); notice the feathers arranged in two columns divided by a vertical line.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1293680[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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