Triton XVI, Lot: 478. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.56 g). Bearded head left, wearing crested helmet decorated with floral motif; below, small seal right / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 44 (unlisted dies); SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; Boston MFA –; de Luynes 2643; Pozzi 2505. Good VF, lightly toned. Very rare.

Ex Barry Feirstein Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 39, 16 May 2007), lot 69.

Bodenstedt’s attribution of his coin 44.2, Karlsruhe, to ex SNG von Aulock 2643 is erroneous; there was no example of this emission in von Aulock, and the cited number, 2643, is a repetition of the de Luynes inventory number for Bodenstedt’s 44.1.