Watch List notes:

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Hemistater (15mm, 8.24 g). Phokaic standard. Square-like object in high relief on flat surface / Incuse square. Cf. Traité I 1–2 and Rosen 92 (for similar, but on different weight standard), otherwise unpublished in the standard references. VF, as made. Extremely rare.


Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 92 (23 May 2016), lot 201.