Watch List notes:

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 625/0-522 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.58 g). Head of African left, wearing necklace; to right, seal downward / Rough incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 24; otherwise unpublished in the standard references. EF. Artistic style. Extremely rare, one of approximately eight known (only one noted by Bodenstedt).


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Roma XI (7 April 2016), lot 307.