Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 244. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA. Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Ingot (One Stater Weight) (17.74 gm). Samian-Euboeic standard. Smooth convex upper surface, textured lower surface. EF. Unpublished. ($5000)

For another EL one stater ingot of a different weight standard, see Triton VI (14-15 January 2003), lot 404 = Leu 71 (24 October 1997), lot 191. The standard of the present ingot is consistent with the associated struck stater and hemistaters in this group. This "ingot" can be interpreted either as a pre-coin stater or as an unstruck stater flan.