A Unique Hekte from the Rosen Collection

Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 299. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte (2.54 g). Round shield decorated with griffin springing left above seal swimming left / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 47.1 (dies a/β – this coin cited and illustrated), otherwise unpublished. Good VF, toned. Unique.

Ex Jonathan P. Rosen Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 72, 6 October 1987), lot 286 = Leu 33 (3 May 1983), lot 383.