Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 749. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL 1/3 Stater – Trite (4.77 g). Milesian standard. Striated type. Flattened striated surface / Double incuse square punch. Weidauer 5; Traité I 10 (same punches); SNG Kayhan 679 var. (cleft); Triton IX, 940 (same punches); CNG 69, 422 (same punches). Good VF. Extremely rare.

Struck from the same punches as the hemistater offered above.