Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 937. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 387-326 BC. EL Hekte (2.54 g). Head of Omphale left, wearing lion skin headdress; club behind, [small seal below] / Quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 107 (dies a/a); SNG Copenhagen 1029; BMC 55 (same dies); SNG von Aulock 2133; Boston MFA 1917; Traité II 2123 (same dies); Pozzi 2510 (same dies); de Hirsch 1519 (same dies). Good VF, lightly toned. Well struck and centered. ($500)