449, Lot: 149. Estimate $150. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 387-326 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9.5mm, 2.49 g). Draped female bust left, with frontal band and laurel wreath(?) in hair that is drawn back and tied at the neck, wearing hoop earring and necklace; trace of seal below / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt –; Triton XV, lot 1230 = Gorny & Mosch 186, lot 1383; Golden Horn Collection (Stack’s, 12 January 2009), lot 2045; otherwise unpublished in the standard references. Compact flan, slightly off center. Near VF. Very rare.