Ex Weber Collection

CNG 87, Lot: 532. Estimate $300. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/0-522 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (6mm, 0.64 g). Helmeted head right / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 15 (dies a/α); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 1787 (same dies); Weber 5732 (this coin). VF, toned, obverse a little off center. Very rare, one of only four examples located by Bodenstedt.

Ex Hermann Weber Collection, 5732; purchased from A.O. van Lennep, Smyrna, 1865.