416, Lot: 228. Estimate $300. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 478-387 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9.5mm, 2.55 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 105, lot 322; CNG 103, lot 272; Roma III, lot 209; Roma XI, lot 321. VF, lightly toned. Extremely rare, possibly only the fifth known example.