CNG 100, Lot: 1456. Estimate $10000. Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Miletos. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Stater (18.6mm, 13.92 g). Lion reclining right, head reverted, within rectangular frame divided into smaller rectangular compartments / Central oblong punch, containing three pellets connected in Λ shape, two parallel lines, and a fox standing left; flanked by two square punches containing, respectively, a stellate pattern and a geometric pattern. Cf. Weidauer 126; Elektron I 63 var. (lion reclining left); SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Kayhan 441 var. (same); ACGC 55 var. (same); BMC 3 var. (stag head in punch); Boston MFA –. VF, lightly toned. Very rare variety.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Lanz 50 (27 November 1989), lot 409.