CNG 96, Lot: 475. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7mm, 1.15 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Head of lion right; pellet above / Incuse square of uncertain design with pellet. Traité I 48A = B.V. Head, “Electrum Coins and their Specific Gravity,” NC 1887, 16 (same die and punch); CNG 78, lot 808 (same die and punch); otherwise unpublished in the standard references. Good VF, obverse a little off center. Extremely rare.