Triton XVII, Lot: 310. Estimate $7500. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Stater Ingot (24x12mm, 16.08 g). Phokaiac standard. Plain surface / Plain surface cut and gouged to appropriate weight. Unpublished, but cf. Kim, “Electrum Ingot Hoard (2002): A proto-monetary hoard?” in SNR 83, pp. 5-10, and CNG 66, lot 647 for a hoard of electrum ingots from the Black Sea region. EF, as made. Extremely rare.

From the Daniel Koppersmith Collection. Ex Gemini VII (9 January 2011), lot 490; Numismatica Ars Classica 54 (24 March 2010), lot 117.