Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 308. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $1250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. 460-400 BC. EL Hekte (2.71 gm). Warrior, nude but for helmet, crouching right, holding round shield behind him; tunny fish before / Quadripartite incuse square. SNG Copenhagen 41; SNG Tübingen 2232; cf. Milavic, The Celator, Aug. 1991, pg. 6. Good VF. (See color enlargement on plate 3.) ($2000) 

The hoplite in this case is not girding for battle, but is preparing for a foot race, where runners competed while carrying their armor.