CNG 88, Lot: 346. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/00 BC. EL Twenty-Fourth Stater (7mm, 0.62 g). Head of griffin right / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt E1 (unlisted dies); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 1794. Near EF. Well centered. Very rare.

This issue is possibly from the earliest coinage at Teos; see: M. Matzke, JNG 50, p. 43, "Serie 0"