Among the Rarest in the Series – Third Known

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 188. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $4400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 478-387 BC. EL Hekte (2.53 g). Stag crouching left; above, small seal left / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 57 (unlisted dies); SNG München 801; Gorny & Mosch 180, lot 184 (€9000); otherwise unpublished. EF, underlying luster. Extremely rare, only one example listed by Bodenstedt (in Munich).