Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 439. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Half Stater (8.73 gm). Samian-Euboeic standard. Plain type. Rough plain surface / Bipartite incuse square punch. Unpublished, but cf. Harlan J. Berk 135th Buy or Bid Sale (10 December 2003), no. 4 for a third stater struck with the same reverse punch. Good VF for type. ($5000)

See lot 430 for more information on early electrum coinage.