Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 440. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Third Stater ­ Trite (4.32 gm). Samian-Euboeic standard. Plain type. Rough plain surface / Bipartite incuse square punch. Unpublished, but see Harlan J. Berk 135th Buy or Bid Sale (10 December 2003), no. 4 (same reverse punch), for another example recently offered. Good VF for type. ($1000)

See lot 430 for more information on early electrum coinage.