Extremely Rare Denomination for Issue

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 248. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Trite – 1/3 Stater (4.73 g). Milesian standard. Figural type. Facing head of lion or panther in center of raised area / Two incuse square punches. Weidauer 158-9; Traité I 28; cf. SNG Kayhan 706 and 711-712 (stater, hekte, and hemihekte). Good VF. Extremely rare denomination, much rarer than the hekte and hemihekte.