Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 241. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 478-387 BC. EL Hekte (2.52 g). Bearded head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin headdress / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 80 (dies a/a); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; BMC -; Boston MFA 1911 (same dies). VF. Extremely rare, only four coins cited by Bodenstedt, two of which are in museums (Boston and Karlsruhe).

Only one has recently appeared at auction: CNG 63, lot 501.