Watch List notes:

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 478-387 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.52 g). Head of African left; to right, small seal downward / Rough incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 54; SNG von Aulock 7949; Roma X, 402 corr. (Bodenstedt number); otherwise unpublished. VF. Extremely rare; only one example cited by Bodenstedt, and only one in CoinArchives (the Roma coin).


Ex Triton XIX (5 January 2016), lot 212 (incorrect dates listed).

Not to be confused with the slightly less rare Bodenstedt 24, which has a necklace on the portrait, and the seal is oriented differently.