408, Lot: 197. Estimate $750. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater(?) (8mm, 2.06 g). Uncertain standard. Eagle flying upward, head left / Incuse square with two inwardly curved lines. Cf. Rauch Summer Auction 2012, lot 345; otherwise unpublished. VF. Extremely rare, only the Rauch piece published.

Rosen 315 (= Pozzi 2372) has a similar obverse type, but is struck on the Phokaic standard, has a pellet border on the obverse, and a plain incuse square on the reverse.