CNG 96, Lot: 482. Estimate $750. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.36 g). Phokaic standard. Head of cock right / Incuse square. Cf. Traité I 111; cf. CNG 69, lot 432; cf. Gemini VI, 166 (all myshemihektai – twenty-fourth staters); otherwise unpublished in the standard references. Good VF. Extremely rare.