IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (12.5mm, 4.61 g). Lydo-Milesian standard.

Triton XXIV
Lot: 682. Estimated: $ 2 000

Greek, Electrum

Sold For $ 2 750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (12.5mm, 4.61 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Geometric figure resembling a star, composed of a cross centered upon a polygon of eight sides / Rectangular incuse divided horizontally and vertically into four compartments by two perpendicular lines; the upper two compartments divided into halves by a single line, the upper halves each containing a pellet, the lower halves bisected by two small vertical lines; the lower two compartments divided into thirds by two parallel lines. McFadden 1 (same obv. die as illustration); Konuk & Lorber fig. 14; Elektron I 16 (same dies); Rosen Sale 12; Traité –; Zhuyuetang 2; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen (Cyprus, etc.), pl. 10, 318; SNG Kayhan 697. Minor deposits. Good VF.

From the William H. Birkinshaw Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 51 (15 September 1999), lot 430.


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