CNG 100, Lot: 81. Estimate $1000. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Erythrai(?). 6th century BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (9mm, 1.33 g). Phokaic standard. Stellate or floral object / Quadripartite incuse square. Konuk & Lorber fig. 13, otherwise unpublished in the standard references. EF. Extremely rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Tkalec (8 September 2008), lot 34.

These stellate/floral issues, known in multiple denominations (cf. SNG von Aulock 7776 [trite]; CNG 97, lot 181 [myshemihekte]; and SNG Berry 1021 [forty-eighth stater]), are speculated to be the earliest electrum from Erythrai, based on the similarity of this obverse type to the reverses on the earliest silver of that city (cf. Boston MFA 1837–41).