Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 420. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Stater (14.41 gm). Milesian standard. Striated type. Flattened striated surface / Two rough incuse punches separated by a cleft. Cf. Weidauer 5 (trite); Traité I 16 = BMC Ionia 1 (Miletos; same cleft); Triton VIII, 430-431; Triton VII, 242; CNG 67, 701 (same cleft); cf. Rosen Collection (MuM 72), 1 (horizontal striations). Good VF. Extremely rare, one of seven known staters of this type. ($10,000)

Struck from the same cleft as the hemistater offered below (lot 421), and the hemistater in CNG 67, lot 702.