Ionia, Uncertain mint 1/24th stater uncertain mint circa 625-600, EL 7.5mm., 0.66g. Male head l., wearing crested diadem. Rev. Irregular incuse square. M&M sale 8, 1949, 821. Leu sale 86, 2003, 339.

Of the highest rarity, apparently only the fourth and by far the finest specimen known. Exceptionally complete and detailed, extremely fine

Ex Nac sale 54, 2010, 118.

This coin has been the subject of debate among scholars. While an early attribution actually ascribed it to Athens, subsequently Alan Walker has suggested an uncertain Thraco-Macedonian mint. To be honest, initially we were not even convinced that this coin belonged to the same issue of the two coins that we have referred to in the catalogue, in fact, we thought it was a completely unrecorded issue. However, after having consulted a colleague who is a great expert of this typology of coins and who we hold in high esteem, we have resolved to embrace the possibility that the coin really does belong to this issue, but has to be attributed to an uncertain Ionian mint.