Triton XX, Lot: 291. Estimate $750. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Forty-eighth Stater (5mm, 0.28 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Central line bisecting field, irregular lines radiating at sides / Quadripartite incuse square punch with diagonal lines inward from corners. McFadden 5 var. (incuse type); Linzalone LN 1066 var. (same); Zhuyuetang 6 var. (same); otherwise unpublished in the standard references. Near EF.

From the L. Shea Collection. Ex Lexington Collection (Classical Numismatic Review XXXIX.2, Summer 2014), no. 978898.