Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 306. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL 1/6 Stater – Hekte (2.45 g). Milesian standard. Plain type. Plain globular surface / Double incuse square punch; punches offset at 90 degree angle, and with striations radiating inward. Weidauer -; Traité I -; SNG Kayhan 674; SNG von Aulock -; CNG 72, lot 762. Good VF.

SNG Kayhan references Weidauer 4, but that type has both punches struck parallel side by side, where this coin appears to belong to a separate group with the punches struck offset at a 90 degree angle. Also the punches have tiny striations radiating inward from the sides, rather than being plain.