Triton XXI, Lot: 492. Estimate $750. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater(?) (8.5mm, 2.07 g). Uncertain standard. Eagle flying upward, head left / Incuse square with two inward-curving lines (or crescents?). CNG E-408, lot 197; Rauch Summer Auction 2012, lot 345 var. (plain punch); otherwise unpublished. Good VF, as made. Extremely rare.

Rosen 315 (= Pozzi 2372) has a similar obverse type, but is struck on the Phokaic standard, has a pellet border on the obverse, and a plain incuse square on the reverse.