CNG 100, Lot: 1475. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.70 g). Phokaic standard. Head of boar left / Incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references. Near VF. Extremely rare.

The boar type electrum is a type usually found on the early issues of the kings of Lydia (see Spier in Studies Price), but those pieces are of a slightly different style and are struck, appropriately, on the Lydo-Milesian standard. This issue, struck on the Phokaic standard, is certainly from an unrelated mint.