Phokaia (BC 600-522) B01 - EL 1/6 Stater

ca 600-522 BC. EL Hekte (2.54g). Seal (fwkh) swimming along to left, looking back over its shoulder; annulet below / Rough quadripartite incuse square. Good VF. Extremely rare; the only coin in Bodenstedt's corpus illustrated with a line drawing! Bodenstedt identifies the device below the seal as a theta, but there is no evidence it is a letter.

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Filename:	620362.jpg
City/Mint name:	Phokaia EL
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Keywords:	electrum / archaic
References:	Bodenstedt 1.4 (one example cited-in the Hermitage collection)
Valuation:	CNG Triton VI (1/2003), lot 362 ($3,400 + comm)
Photo courtesy of:	Classical Numismatic Group - www.cngcoins.com
Filesize:	66 KiB
Date added:	Oct 12, 2005
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