Fourth Known

CNG 105, Lot: 322. Estimate $750. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 478-387 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9.5mm, 2.53 g). Laureate head of Zeus left; to right, small seal upward / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt –, but cf. Em. 76 (citing only two examples: Boston MFA 1916 and Traité II 2124–both with a similar portrait type but without laurel wreath); CNG 103, lot 272 (same die and punch); Roma III, lot 209 (same die and punch); Roma XI, lot 321 (same die and punch). VF, struck with worn dies. Extremely rare, possibly only the fourth known example.