Watch List notes:

IONIA. Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. 1/24 Stater (Electrum, 7 mm, 0.63 g). Calf's head to right. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square of millsail pattern. Rosen 328. SNG von Aulock 7774. Attractive and clear. About extremely fine.


The head on the obverse of this coin is often termed that of a lion, but the rounded features and very large eye look remarkably bovine and it seems much more likely to be that of a calf.