Triton XIV, Lot: 291. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte – 1/6 Stater (10mm, 2.56 g). Head of horse, wearing bridle, left; to left, small seal upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 49 (dies a/α); SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Boston MFA 1905; SNG Lewis 942. EF, lightly toned, a little off center. Very rare, only two examples listed by Bodenstedt, both in public collections (Boston and Cambridge).