Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 445. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Third Stater ­ Trite (4.74 gm). Milesian standard. Figural type. Male bust left on a striated field / Two rough incuse square punches. Jonathan P. Rosen Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 72, 6 October 1987), lot 19 (same obverse die and reverse punches), otherwise unpublished. Same obverse die and reverse punches as the previous lot. Same obverse die and one reverse punch as the following lot. VF. The second known example. ($2500)

See lot 443 for more information on the this die-linked group of early electrum.