IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (12mm, 4.64 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Near EF.

CNG Feature Auction 123
Lot: 140. Estimated: $ 3 000

Greek, Electrum

Sold For $ 5 000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Go to Live

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (12mm, 4.64 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; Konuk & Lorber fig. 14; Elektron I 16; Rosen Sale 12; Traité –; Zhuyuetang 2; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen (Cyprus, etc.), pl. 10, 318; SNG Kayhan 697. Near EF.

From the W. Hansen Collection, purchased from Calgary Coin Company, 10 July 2015. Ex George La Borde Collection. Reportedly ex Jonathan K. Kern inventory.


The final winners of all CNG Feature Auction 123 lots will be determined during the live online sale that will be held on 23-24 May 2023. This lot is in Session One, which will begin 23 May 2023 at 9 AM ET.

Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 25% for all others.

We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and stable previous version of Chrome and Firefox.