CNG 105, Lot: 333. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 478-387 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9.5mm, 2.56 g). Head of Athena left, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with a wreath; [small seal not visible] / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt –; Triton XIX, lot 232; Nomos 8, lot 179 = Roma 3, 213; Pecunem 11, lot 295 corr. (not Bod. 95); CNG E-317, lot 78. EF, a little die rust. Extremely rare, apparently the fifth known.