384, Lot: 260. Estimate $1000. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 478-387 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.54 g). Head of Athena left, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with a wreath; [small seal] / Quadripartite incuse square. Nomos 8, lot 179 = Roma 3, 213; Pecunem 11, lot 295 corr. (not Bod. 95); CNG E-317, lot 78; Triton XIX, lot 232. VF, small pit on Athena’s cheek. Extremely rare, apparently the fifth known.