Kebren EL Hekte

CNG 102, Lot: 400. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TROAS, Kebren. Late 6th-early 5th centuries BC. EL Hekte (10mm, 2.76 g). Phokaic standard. Head of ram right / Incuse square. SNG Ashmolean –; SNG von Aulock 7775 var. (head left). VF. Unique and unpublished.

Although there are a few electrum Phokaic standard hektai known with a ram’s head (particularly from Mytilene and Phokaia, and an uncertain mint [Weidauer 50]), all are distinctly different in style from this coin. At the same time, the style of the ram’s head here is a perfect match to the type found on the early silver issues at Kebren (cf. SNG Ashmolean 1076–7). See SNG Kayhan 1565 and CNG 90, lot 577 for myshemihektes of the same style and standard, but with head left.