Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 449. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Sixth Stater ­ Hekte (2.33 gm). Milesian standard. Figural(?) type. Uncertain design on a striated field / Two rough incuse square punches. Unpublished, but cf.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. The second punch probably the same (but a different state) as lot 446 above. VF. Unique. ($500)

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