318, Lot: 231. Estimate $300. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Forty-eighth Stater (5mm, 0.30 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Figural type. Schematic head of lion right / Quadripartite incuse square. Weidauer 124–5; Traité I -; cf. SNG Kayhan 708-710 (1/24 staters); CNG 72, lot 772. Good VF.

Ex Lanz 151 (30 June 2011), lot 462 (misattributed as griffin’s head).