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Ex Stevenson Collection

CNG 103, Lot: 255. Estimate $7500.
Sold for $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Miletos. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Stater (21mm, 13.92 g). Lion reclining left, head reverted, within rectangular frame divided into smaller rectangular compartments / Central oblong punch, containing three pellets connected in Λ shape and a fox standing left, flanked by two square punches containing, respectively, a stellate pattern and a stag’s head left. Weidauer 126; Elektron I 61; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Kayhan 440; BMC 3 var. (obv. type right); Boston MFA 1882; Konuk & Lorber fig. 18; Kraay & Hirmer 591; Traité I 19 = C. Greenwell, “On some Rare Greek Coins” in NC 1897, pl. XI, 17; Zhuyuetang 18. Good VF, toned. Choice and well struck for issue.


Ex George & Robert Stevenson Collection (Classical Numismatic Group XXVI, 11 June 1993), lot 97.