Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 436. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Sixth Stater ­ Hekte (2.35 gm). Milesian standard. Striated type. Flattened striated surface / Double incuse punch. Weidauer 6; Traité pl. I, 10; BMC Ionia pg. 3, 9; SNG Kayhan 680; Boston MFA 1751; SNG von Aulock 1769. Good VF. ($1000)

See Leu 57 (25 May 1993), lot 103, for another example with the same reverse punch.

See lot 430 for more information on early electrum coinage.