Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 425. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte (2.58 gm, 12h). Head of a roaring lion left; seal to right / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 38 (dies a/b); BMC Ionia -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Kayhan -. EF. Very rare, only four specimens cited by Bodenstedt, all in museum collections. ($1500)