Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 272. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Third Stater ­ Trite (4.77 g). Milesian standard. Striated type. Flattened striated surface / Double incuse punch. Weidauer 5; Traité I 10 (same punches); SNG Kayhan 679 var. (cleft); Triton VIII, 434 (same punches); CNG 69, 422 (same punches); CNG 67, 703 (same punches). Good VF. Extremely rare. ($3000)

Struck from the same punches as the hemistater offered above (lot 271), and the hemistaters in CNG 69, lot 421, and CNG 67, lot 702.