Triton XVI, Lot: 481. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.56 g). Figural type. Phokaic standard. Crab / Quadripartite incuse square. Rosen Sale 81; Gemini VI, lot 165 (same dies); Tkalec (2011), lot 92 (same dies); Triton XII, lot 309; CNG 79, lot 360; otherwise unpublished in the standard references. Good VF. Very rare, and among the finest known.

The first of these appeared in the Münzen und Medaillen AG sale of the Rosen Collection in 1987, which remained unique until a small number appeared in the market recently.