IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7mm, 1.13 g). Lydo-Milesian standard.

CNG Feature Auction 120
Lot: 351. Estimated: $ 3 000

Greek, Electrum

Sold For $ 1 800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Go to Live

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7mm, 1.13 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Head of lion right; [pellet below] / Incuse square, pellet . SNG Kayhan 1546 corr. (pellet not noted); Traité I 48A = B.V. Head, “Electrum Coins and their Specific Gravity” in NC 1887, 16 (same die and punch); CNG 78, lot 808 (same die and punch); Lanz 148, lot 48 (hammer $14,000). Lightly toned, a few minor marks. Good VF. Very rare and among the finest known.

From the J. de Wilde Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 176 (10 March 2009), lot 1302 .


The final winners of all CNG 120 lots will be determined at the live online sale that will be held on 11-12 May 2022. CNG 120 – Session One – Greek Coinage (Part 1) will be held Wednesday morning, 11 May 2022 beginning at 9:00 AM ET.

Winning bids are subject to a 20% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 22.50% 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 the stable previous version of Mozilla Firefox and Chrome.