Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 296. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/0-522 BC. EL Hekte (2.58 g). Head of African left; behind, seal downward / Rough incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 24 (unlisted dies); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; SNG von Aulock -; Boston MFA -. EF, minor scrape on obverse. Extremely rare, only one example cited by Bodenstedt (in Karlsruhe).