IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.73 g). Phokaic standard. EF.

Triton XXVI
Lot: 257. Estimated: $ 5 000

Greek, Electrum

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IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.73 g). Phokaic standard. Scorpion / Incuse square. A. Tsintsifos, Perix Pangaion Epeiros, The dawn of coinage, Part I, p. 161, 1 (Northern Greece); cf. Traité I 113 = BMC p. 12, 57 (forty-eighth stater); cf. Triton XXI, lot 488 (hemihekte); otherwise, unpublished. Slight graze on obverse. EF. Extremely rare, only three in CoinArchives.


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