Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 419. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Miletos. Before 575 BC. EL Stater (14.05 gm, 3h). Lion reclining left, head reverted, within rectangular frame divided into smaller rectangular compartments / Central oblong punch containing a fox standing left and three pellets, flanked by two square punches containing, respectively, a stag's head left and stellate pattern. Weidauer 126 var. (slightly different reverse punches); Traité II pg. 22, 19; BMC Ionia pg. 183, 2 var. (types right); Boston MFA 1882 var. (slightly different reverse punches); SNG Kayhan 440 var. (same); Dewing 2287 var. (same); Kraay & Hirmer 591 var. (same). Good VF, exceptional for this issue. ($5000)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection.