Watch List notes:

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Hemistater (15.5mm, 7.11 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Pellet set on raised square offset 45 degrees from another square, upon which it is set; all within linear square with hash marks on inner sides / Incuse sqaure. Traité I 6, pl. I, 5 = BMC 5 (same dies); Fischer 171, lot 14 (same dies); otherwise unpublished in the standard references. EF. Extremely rare.


From the MM Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 96 (6 October 2016), lot 1087; Morton & Eden 72 (15 December 2014), lot 52.

See Elektron II 28 for a hemihekte that is likely from this issue.