333, Lot: 97. Estimate $150. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. 5th century BC. Pale EL Hekte(?) (10mm, 2.23 g). Forepart of horse left / Quadripartite incuse square. Cf. Schönert-Geiss 4-5 (horse left); CNG E-282, lot 101; CNG E-239, lot 164; cf. Elektron I 1 (head only right). Near VF.

Such horse types appear in both very pale electrum, as the current lot, and silver, as the following lot. It is difficult to say for certain what the denomination is; presumably the were struck as hektai, with the gold content rapidly reduced.