Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 930. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 477-388 BC. EL Hekte (2.55 g). Head of young male left, wearing tainia; [small seal behind] / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 63 (dies a/-; unlisted rev. die); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; SNG von Aulock -; Boston MFA -. Good VF, spot of encrustation in field on obverse. Very rare, only seven specimens recorded by Bodenstedt, all from one obverse die. ($750)