The Infant Herakles – Third Known

Triton XIX, Lot: 234. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 478-387 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.54 g). Infant Herakles seated facing, head and arms left; above, small seal right / Quadripartite incuse square. Roma 10, lot 403; Roma 5, lot 322; otherwise unpublished. Good VF, struck with worn obverse die. Extremely rare, apparently the third known.