Watch List notes:

IONIA, Phokaia. Circa 521-478 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9.5mm, 2.58 g). Three seals swimming counterclockwise around central pellet-in-annulet; all on convex field with dotted border / Incuse square. Bodenstedt Em. 29 var. (central pellet without annulet, field not convex); CNG E-419, lot 181; Lanz 164, lot 76 = Roma E-30, lot 128; Roma X, lot 404. Light scrape on obverse, test cuts and marks along edge. Good VF. Very rare variety.


In addition to the differences noted above, the style of the dolphins here appear more rudimentary/archaic than what is found examples of Bodenstedt's emission 29.