Triton XV, Lot: 1229. Estimate $1500. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 478-387 BC. EL Hekte (9mm, 2.50 g). Facing bearded head of Silenos, wearing ivy wreath; to left, small seal upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 67 (dies a/α); Gemini VI, lot 187 (same die and punch); Kastner 4, lot 125 (same die and punch). Good VF. Extremely rare, apparently the sixth known.