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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 385. Estimate $5000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005. 
Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesos. Phanes. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Sixth Stater ­ Hekte (2.31 gm). Forepart of stag right, head reverted / Incuse square punch with raised lines within. CNG 67, 670 (same dies); Triton VIII, 400. Good VF. Extremely rare, one of only eight known hektes of Phanes. ($5000)

This hekte shares its reverse punch with a Phanes stater (Tkalec [2000], lot 114) and two trites (CNG 66, lot 446, and Tkalec [2001], lot 116).