Triton XX, Lot: 269. Estimate $1500. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/0-522 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9.5mm, 2.58 g). Head of African left; behind, seal downward / Rough incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 24; Triton XII, lot 296 (same die and punch); CNG 99, lot 226; Roma 6, lot 629; otherwise unpublished. Near EF. Well centered on a broad flan. Extremely rare, apparently the eighth known; only the second and finest known of this die.

This issue was struck from two obverse dies that are quite distinct in style.