Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 446. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Sixth Stater ­ Hekte (2.36 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P. Rosen Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 72, 6 October 1987), lot 28 (same obverse die and reverse punches), otherwise unpublished. Same obverse die and one reverse punch as the two preceding lots. Good VF. The second known example. ($2500)

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