CNG 90, Lot: 604. Estimate $300. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Twenty-Fourth Stater (7mm, 0.59 g). Milesian standard. Figural type. Head of roaring lion left / Incuse square. Weidauer –; Traité –; SNG Kayhan –; Rosen –; Boston MFA –; cf. Elektron II 39-40 (forty-eighth staters). Good VF. Apparently unpublished denomination.

The cataloger of the Elektron collection associated its coins of this type to Rosen 304, but the style of the lion and the incuse punch are not consistent with these.