Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 362. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $3400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 600-522 BC. EL Hekte (2.54 gm). Seal (fwkh) swimming along to left, looking back over its shoulder; annulet below / Rough quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt 1.4 (one example cited-in the Hermitage collection). Good VF. Extremely rare; the only coin in Bodenstedt's corpus illustrated with a line drawing! (See color enlargement on plate 4.) ($2500) 

Bodenstedt identifies the device below the seal as a theta, but there is no evidence it is a letter.