Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 271. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Hemistater (7.18 g). Milesian standard. Striated type. Flattened striated surface / Two rough incuse punches separated by a cleft. Cf. Weidauer 5 (trite); cf. Traité I 16 = BMC Ionia 1 (Miletos; stater; same cleft); Triton VIII, 432; CNG 69, 421 (same punches and cleft); CNG 67, 702 (same punches and cleft). Good VF. Extremely rare, one of five known hemistaters of this type. ($5000)

Struck from the same cleft as the stater offered above (lot 270), and the staters in CNG 69, lot 420, and CNG 67, lot 701. Also struck from the same punches as the following third stater (lot 272), and the third staters in Triton VIII, lot 434, CNG 69, lot 422, and CNG 67, lot 703.