Triton XVII, Lot: 316. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Hemitetarte – Eighth Stater (9mm, 1.73 g). Lydo-Milesian standard(?). Geometric type. Raised square with irregular hash marks / Incuse square punch. Unpublished. Good VF, toned. Unique.

From the Daniel Koppersmith Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 91 (19 September 2012), lot 300 (there as a hemihekte of an uncertain standard).

The present piece adds a new denomination to a small series of early geometric types. The group apparently consists of a hemistater (Traité I 1, 7.13 g), a hemitetarte (present coin), and a myshemihekte (Elektron I 51, 0.50 g), with weights roughly comporting to the Lydo-Milesian standard.