Triton XVIII, Lot: 622. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/0-522 BC. EL Hekte (10mm, 2.59 g). Head of lioness (or leopard) left; above, small seal right / Incuse square punch. Bodenstedt Em. 26; Triton XVI, lot 473; Triton XV, lot 1227; Triton X, lot 302; CNG 96, lot 446; Gorny & Mosch 165, lot 1322; otherwise unpublished. Near EF, obverse die a little worn. Extremely rare, apparently the seventh known.