Issue of the Ionian Revolt?

CNG 100, Lot: 1450. Estimate $50000. Sold for $85000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Klazomenai (or Miletos?). Circa 500-494 BC. EL Stater (19mm, 14.01 g). Milesian standard. Forepart of winged boar right; rose above / Quadripartite incuse square. Boston MFA 1811 var. (no rose); BMC p. 8, 38 var. (same); Traité I 352. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare issue, this variety with rose unpublished.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Leu 38 (13 May 1986), lot 110.

This coin appears to belong to a diverse series of electrum staters struck on the Milesian standard that Kraay (ACGC p. 30), and others, have tentatively attributed to the period of the Ionian Revolt. Although none have ethnics, the obverses of many of the coins are of types that are common to various cities that were involved in the revolt. Kraay notes the significant problem with the theory is that there are none of these coins that feature a type that would be attributable to Miletos, the city that led the revolt, but he proposed that it was possible that the entire series was struck there, as a centralized mint. Thus the types could either represent the cities that contributed resources to the revolt or successive Milesian officials who oversaw the coinage production. If the obverse type does represent the city, this issue would most likely belong to Klazomenai, all of whose contemporary coinage featured a winged-boar forepart.