Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 278. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $423. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL 1/24th Stater (0.75 g). Euboic standard. Geometric type. Three-sided square with central projection, surrounded by radiate lines / Rough incuse square punch. Rosen 364; Triton VIII, 455 (same obv. die); CNG 69, 434 (same die and punch). Good VF. Extremely rare. ($500)

Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot, as well as Rosen 363 and CNG 67, 709, both EL twelfth staters.