CNG 102, Lot: 491. Estimate $750. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (11mm, 2.55 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Head of bridled horse left / Rough incuse square. Cf. CNG 97, lot 221, otherwise unpublished. VF, struck with worn obverse die.

There is a wide variety of electrum hektai with a horse head, but the style of this horse, as well as the incuse, is quite different from the published examples.