Triton XVIII, Lot: 620. Estimate $750. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/0-522 BC. EL Twenty-fourth Stater (6mm, 0.64 g). Head of bull left / Incuse square. Cf. Bodenstedt em. 10 for hektes of this type, otherwise unpublished. Choice EF, toned. Well centered and struck. Apparently unique new denomination for this emission.

The style of the bull's head and the characteristics of the flan are identical with Bodenstedt's emission 10 hektes, and the present piece is struck on the Phokaic standard, so it must be a previously unknown denomination in the Bodenstedt 10 series. The usual seal is missing, but it is probably just off the flan. The present type is not to be confused with electrum 1/24 staters from an unrelated but similar coinage struck at an uncertain Ionian mint on the Lydo-Milesian standard with bull's head right (cf. Kayhan 734); the different weight standard clearly differentiates that issue from the present coin.