Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 229. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesos. Before 600 BC. EL 1/12 Stater (1.16 gm). Forepart of stag left; head reverted, three pellets to left / Incuse punch with raised lines within. Weidauer 38; Traité pl. II, 18; Boston MFA 1816 var. (stag right); BMC Ionia pg. 47, 4; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -. Good VF. ($1000)

This issue marks one of the earliest appearances of the stag of Artemis as a civic badge of Ephesos.