CNG 103, Lot: 304. Estimate $750. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Kos. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.54 g). Crab / Quadripartite incuse square. Stefanaki, Kos I, Series I, 1-6 (dies E1/O1); Rosen 81; HGC 6, 1294. VF, small edge split. Very rare.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 100 (7 October 2015), lot 1504.

Stefanaki lists nine specimens from three obverse dies and one reverse. In his study, he does not list Gorny & Mosch 199, lot 483; Hauck & Aufhäuser 21, lot 162; and CNG 100, lot 1504 (this coin), which brings the census to twelve examples.