421, Lot: 172. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.46 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Head of bridled horse left / Rough incuse square. CNG 97, lot 1532, otherwise unpublished in the standard references. VF.
Ex Gorny & Mosch 241 (10 October 2016), lot 1532.
There is a wide variety of electrum hektai with a horse head, but the style of the horse, as well as the incuse, is quite different on this piece from the published examples.