Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 428. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Hemistater (8.68 gm). Samian-Euboeic standard. Plain type. Rough plain surface / Bipartite incuse square punch. Triton VIII, 439 (same punch). Good VF for type. ($5000)

This coin was struck from the same bipartite punch as the three coins in Triton VIII (lots 438-440; a stater, hemistater, and third stater, respectively), and a third stater in the Harlan J. Berk 135th Buy or Bid Sale (no. 4). From the degree of wear exhibited by the punch on this specimen, it was clearly struck later than the others.