Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 671. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesos. Before 600 BC. EL Fourrée 1/24 Stater (0.41 gm). Forepart of stag right, head reverted / Incuse punch with raised lines within. Weidauer -; Traité -; cf. Boston MFA -; cf. SNG von Aulock 7773; Rosen -. VF, scattered breaks in plating. Rare. ($500)

These electrum coins mark the first appearance of the stag of Artemis as a civic badge of Ephesos, and are fromthe same issue as the famous "Phanes" stater and trite, the earliest named coinage. The tiny 1/48 staters are struck from the same dies as the hemihektes with forepart of stag.