Triton XVII, Lot: 301. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/0-522 BC. EL Forty-Eighth Stater (5mm, 0.33 g). Head of griffin left; behind, small seal upward / Incuse punch. Bodenstedt Em. 12; CNG 94, lot 523; Heritage (26 April 2012), lot 23145 (incorrectly cataloged as Bodenstedt 2.2); otherwise unpublished. EF. Exceptional for type. Extremely rare, only one example listed in Bodenstedt (in Berlin), only three in CoinArchives.