Ionia, Miletos EL Trite. Circa 560-545 BC. Lion with open jaws crouching left on decorated double exergual line / Two square incuse punches of different size, one of which contains a bird standing left. Unpublished in the standard references; for a similar obverse type electrum 1/6 Stater cf. Weidauer 128 [= B. Head, The Coins in D. Hogarth, Excavations at Ephesus, London 1908, p. 84, 52]. 4.75g, 13mm.
Very Fine. Unique and of considerable early numismatic significance.