Triton XVI, Lot: 475. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.54 g). Forepart of lion left, devouring prey; above, small seal left / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 36 (unlisted dies); SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; Boston MFA –; BMC 21; de Luynes 2646; Traité II 2095. Near EF, lightly toned. Very rare.

Ex Barry Feirstein Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 39, 16 May 2007), lot 66.