CNG 94, Lot: 601. Estimate $500. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. Fourrée Forty-eighth Stater (5mm, 0.29 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Figural type. Scarab beetle / Rough incuse square punch. Weidauer –; Traité I –; SNG Kayhan –; cf. SNG Keckman 329-30 Boston MFA –; cf. Rosen 353; cf. Elektron II 17; cf. Triton XIV, lot 311 (all official issues). VF.

This series is also described as being on the Samian-Euboeic standard.