CNG 108, Lot: 196. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/0-522 BC or 521-478 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.58 g). Archaic head of female left / Rough incuse square. Bodenstedt – (but cf. em. 23 and 33 for similar); CNG 106, lot 381 corr. (not Bod. 33; same die and punch); Lanz 151, lot 475 = Gemini VI, 199 (same rev. punch); Leu 45, lot 218 (same rev. punch); Leu 50, lot 166 (same rev. punch); NAC 92, lot 216 (same die and punch); Nomos 15, lot 153 (same die and punch); Prospero 520 (same die and punch); Roma XIV, lot 155 (same rev. punch). EF, lustrous. Very rare type, unknown to Bodenstedt.

See also SNG Kayhan 1431 (= CNG 69, lot 437) for a silver issue of Phokaia with the same obverse type, and a quadripartite incuse reverse.