Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 435. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL 1/24th Stater (0.73 gm). Euboeic standard. Geometric type. Three-sided square with central projection, surrounded by radiate lines / Rough incuse square punch. Rosen 364; Triton VIII, 455 (same die and punch). Good VF. Extremely rare, apparently the third known. ($500)

This coin and the Triton VIII specimen were struck with the same obverse die as Rosen 363, an EL twelfth stater.