416, Lot: 235. Estimate $500. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 478-387 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9mm, 2.55 g). Head of female left, hair bound in sakkos with forepart of sphinx at crest and ornate headdress (kalathos?) above; below, inverted small seal left / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt –; Triton XXI, lot 473; CNG 105, lot 334; CNG 318, lot 223 corr. (not Bod. 92, same rev. punch); CNG E-239, lot 159 corr. (same); Gorny & Mosch 107, lot 193. VF. Extremely rare, apparently the sixth known.