IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Stater (19.5mm, 16.58 g). Phokaic standard.

Triton XXIII – Session Two – Greek Coinage Part II through Roman Imperial Coinage Part I
Lot: 390. Estimated: $ 10 000

Greek, Electrum

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IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Stater (19.5mm, 16.58 g). Phokaic standard. Schematic rosette within linear circle (wheel or shield?) / Incuse square. Triton XII, lot 308; cf. Traité I 224 = BMC Ionia p. 117, 5 (Phokaic hekte with similar rosette); otherwise unpublished. Good VF. Extremely rare, the second known.

From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Triton XXI (9 January 2018), lot 482.

Possibly struck at Erythrai, which used a rosette symbol on its coins, and whose electrum issues were struck on the Phokaic standard.

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