CNG 91, Lot: 285. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/0-522 BC. EL Hekte (10mm, 2.57 g). Head of roaring lion left; to right, small seal upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 13 (dies a/α); Gulbenkian 743 (same dies); Triton XV, lot 1224; CNG 84, lot 634; Freeman & Sear 13, lot 186; Gorny & Mosch 195, lot 234. Near EF. Extremely rare, apparently the eighth known.