287, Lot: 178. Estimate $200. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625-600 BC. EL 1/48 Stater (6mm, 0.41 g). Head of griffin left / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt E2 (unlisted dies). VF, patchy dark tone giving the appearance of a fourrée. Very rare.

This issue is possibly from the earliest coinage at Teos; see: M. Matzke, JNG 50, p. 43, "Serie 0."