CNG 97, Lot: 210. Estimate $500. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.14 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Floral design of cross-like pattern with central ring; rays in quarters / Rough incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references; cf. Triton XIII, lot 1308; CNG 96, lot 472; CNG 75, lot 389; CNG 73, lots 342-4 (same die and punch); CNG 69, lot 436 (same die and punch); NAC 11, lot 77 (same die and punch). Good VF. Struck on an unusually broad flan.

From the Lexington Collection.