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IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (12.5mm, 4.66 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Facing head of lion or panther within triangular incuse [on a raised area] / Two incuse squares with raised lines within. Weidauer Group XXXII, 158-9; Traité I 28; Elektron I 19; SNG von Aulock –; cf. SNG Kayhan 711 (hekte); Boston MFA 1753; cf. Rosen 267 (hekte). Typical compact flan. VF. Very rare denomination, much rarer than the hekte and hemihekte.
This trite is part of an electrum series consisting of staters, trites, hektes, hemihektes, and twenty-fourth staters (cf. Weidauer 156-65). Miletos and Samos have been proposed as the possible mint, though the former is now discounted by R. Hilbert’s die study of the electrum issues of that mint, while the weight standard suggests that the latter mint is unlikely.
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