Triton XXI, Lot: 488. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7.5mm, 1.33 g). Phokaic standard. Scorpion / Incuse square. Weidauer –; Elektron –; cf. Traité I 113 = BMC p. 12, 57 (forty-eighth stater); Boston MFA –; Rosen –; SNG Kayhan –; SNG von Aulock –; Leu 30, lot 173 (same die and punch). Good VF, some die rust on reverse. Extremely rare.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 92, Part II (24 May 2016), lot 1477.