Triton XX, Lot: 220. Estimate $1000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Kyzikos. Circa 550-450 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.66 g). Bearded head left, wearing helmet in the style of a griffin’s head; below, tunny left / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I –; Greenwell –; Hurter & Liewald I 17a; Boston MFA –; SNG BN –; SNG von Aulock 7291 (same dies); Triton XVI, lot 423; Gorny & Mosch 219, lot 212. EF, underlying luster. Well centered. Apparently the fifth known.

Hurter & Liewald list two examples for their 17a, but note that the Naville reference for the first of these, which is their plate coin, is erroneous.