Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 447. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Half Stater (7.13 gm). Milesian standard. Figural type. Forepart of roaring lion left on a striated field / Two rough incuse square punches separated by a cleft. Unpublished, but cf. Jonathan P. Rosen Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 72, 6 October 1987), lots 19 and 28 for one reverse punch used on this coin as well as all the others in this group. Same obverse die as the following lot. VF. Unique. ($2000)

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