CNG 100, Lot: 90. Estimate $3000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (11.5mm, 4.68 g). Geometric figure resembling a star, composed of a cross centered upon a polygon of eight sides / Rectangular incuse divided horizontally and vertically into four compartments by two perpendicular lines; the upper two compartments divided into halves by a single line, the upper halves each containing a pellet, the lower halves bisected by two small vertical lines; the lower two compartments divided into thirds by two parallel lines. McFadden 1; Konuk & Lorber fig. 14; Elektron I 16; Rosen Sale 12; Traité –; Zhuyuetang 2; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen (Cyprus, etc.), pl. 10, 318; SNG Kayhan 697. Near EF, toned. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex CNG Inventory 704649 (December 1997).