Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 742. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 478-387 BC. EL Hekte (2.54 g). Head of King Midas left; seal behind / Rough quadripartite incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 66 (unlisted dies); SNG Copenhagen 1025. Good VF. Extremely rare, only five examples cited by Bodenstedt, three of which are in museums.

This issue of Phokaia is the only Greek (non-Imperial) coin to bear the portrait of the famous King Midas of Phrygia.