Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 451. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hemistater (7.03 gm). Winged female figure running left, head turned right, holding caduceus in right hand, wreath in left / Irregular rectangular central punch flanked by two square punches. Weidauer 175 (same dies); Traité -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Kayhan -; Boston MFA -; SNG von Aulock -; cf. Rosen 246 (Stater). Good VF, some minor field marks. Extremely rare, only two other specimens recorded by Weidauer. ($5000)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection.