Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 430. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Sixth Stater ­ Hekte (2.35 gm). Milesian standard. Figural type. Male bust left on a striated field / Two rough incuse square punches. Triton VIII, 446 (same obverse die and reverse punches); Rosen Collection (MuM 72), 28 (same obverse die and reverse punches). Good VF. The third known example. ($2500)

This coin was struck from the same obverse die as the hemistater, and the same obverse die and one reverse punch as third stater, in Triton VIII (lots 444 and 445, respectively).