Same Punch - Two Denominations

Triton XIV, Lot: 318. Estimate $2000. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-550 BC. Lot of two early electrum. Includes the following: EL Hekte (10mm, 2.33 g). Milesian standard. Forepart of lion left / Two square punches, one with stellate pattern, the other with bird standing left (eagle?). Spier 9 (same dies); Rosen 368 (same dies) // EL 1/24 Stater (6mm, 0.59 g). Milesian standard. Head of a boar right / Incuse square punch with stellate pattern. Spier 6 = Rosen 282 (same dies). The stellate punches on both coins are from the same die. VF. Both coins are extremely rare. Two (2) coins in lot.

Both coins are from the N.T. Collection, and ex Triton VI (13 January 2003), lot 400; the hekte is also ex Münzen und Medaillen Washington (7 December 1997), lot 118.

The reverse dies link these two coins to a series of inscribed Lydian tritai and hektai with the partial legend (in Lydian), ... late ... (see Spier p. 332). Accordingly, the entire series, including the uninscribed coins in this lot, can be confidently assigned to Lydia.