Triton XVI, Lot: 473. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/0-522 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.58 g). Head of lioness (or leopard) left; above, small seal right / Incuse square punch. Bodenstedt Em. 26 (dies a/- [unlisted rev. die]); Triton XV, lot 1227; Triton X, lot 302; Gorny & Mosch 165, lot 1322; otherwise unpublished. Good VF, struck from worn obverse die. Extremely rare, apparently the fifth known.