Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 298. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $3800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte (2.58 g). Bearded head of Ares left, wearing crested helmet; below, seal right / Rough incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 44 (dies a/β); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; SNG von Aulock 2643 (same dies); Boston MFA -; de Luynes 2643 (same obv. die); Pozzi 2505. Superb EF. Very rare, only seven coins recorded by Bodenstedt. See Triton XI, lot 239 for a similar example with a hammer price of $7200.