CNG 99, Lot: 240. Estimate $500. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7mm, 1.15 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Facing lion head / Incuse square. Weidauer 162–5; Traité I 32; cf. Elektron I 19 (trite); Rosen –; SNG Kayhan 712; SNG von Aulock 1801. EF, lustrous. Well centered.