Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 794. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Teos. Circa 510-475 BC. AR Stater (11.71 g). Griffin seated right, raising foreleg; M E below, flanking other foreleg / Quadripartite incuse square. Balcer group IV corr. (A12/P16); SNG Copenhagen -; Traité I 500. Near EF, lightly toned. Overstruck on uncertain type.

Balcer failed to note the M on the obverses of his group IV staters (although it is clearly visible on his example 12b = Traité I 500).