Extremely Rare

CNG 99, Lot: 226. Estimate $5000. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/0-522 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.58 g). Head of African left; behind, seal downward / Rough incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 24; Triton XII, lot 296; Roma 6, lot 629; otherwise unpublished. EF. Extremely rare, apparently the fourth known; only one example cited by Bodenstedt (in Karlsruhe), and only two in CoinArchives.