Triton XVI, Lot: 479. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.62 g). Two seals, belly-to-belly, swimming in opposite directions / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 46 (dies a/β); SNG von Aulock 7941; SNG Copenhagen –; Boston MFA –; Dewing 2302 (same dies). Good VF, lightly toned. Very rare.

Ex Barry Feirstein Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 39, 16 May 2007), lot 71.