IONIA. Phokaia. Circa 478-387 BC. Hekte (Electrum, 10.5 mm, 2.55 g). Head of Hera to left, wearing a stephane ornamented with a lily between two palmettes; behind her neck, seal swimming upwards. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. BMC 44. Bodenstedt 88. SNG von Aulock 7952. Traité II 2106. With a peculiarly attractive and youthful-looking head of Hera. A few earthen deposits, otherwise, good very fine.

The head of Hera with an ornamental stephane is very similar to the heads that appeared on the coinage of Olympia at the end of the 5th and early 4th centuries.