Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 422. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Late 6th-5th century BC. AR Hemidrachm (1.56 gm, 12h). Head of griffin left / Quadripartite incuse square. BMC Ionia pg. 215, 82; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 2116 var. (seal behind griffin); SNG Kayhan 514. EF. ($300)

Similar pieces with a seal behind the griffin's head are clearly Phokaian (as von Aulock 2116). Coins without the seal are possibly from Teos, where this coin would be a diobol.