Description: Lesbos, Mytilene, 400 - 350 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right / M-Y-T-I; head of calf right.

Diameter: AE9 mm

Weight: 0,56 g

Grade: aVF/aVF

Attribution: SG 4269 var. (ethnikon); SNG Cop 370; BMC 20.

Commentary: black patina, good details

History: Aristotle lived on Mytilene for two years, 337-335 BC, with his friend and successor, Theophrastus (a native of the island), after becoming the tutor to Alexander, son of King Philip II of Macedon.

Article Number: 037-08-03-41652