Watch List notes:

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9mm, 2.34 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Crude chimaira(?) right on striated background / Two incuse squares. Cf. Linzalone 1043 (stater); cf. Gulbenkian 719 (stater); cf. Triton XIV, lot 298–302 (for other denominations of this series); cf. Gorny & Mosch 190, lot 250 (trite); otherwise unpublished in the standard references, but cf. Weidauer 11-3, 18-25, and 177 for similar figural-on-striated obverse trites. VF. Extremely rare, the second hekte known for this series (for the other, see CNG 115, lot 233).