Watch List notes:

IONIA, Erythrai. Circa 550-500 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10.5mm, 2.57 g). Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin / Hexapartite incuse square. Cf. SNG Kayhan 737–8 (quadripartite incuse); cf. SNG von Aulock 1942 (same); SNG Copenhagen –; cf. Boston MFA 1806–7 (same). Good VF. Unusual incuse. Very rare.


Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot, with different incuse type.