IONIA, Miletos. Circa 600-546 BC. EL Stater (21.5mm, 14.02 g). Lion reclining left, head reverted, within rectangular frame divided into smaller rectangular compartments / Central oblong punch, containing three pellets connected in Λ shape and a quadruped standing left, flanked by two square punches containing, respectively, a stellate pattern and a geometric pattern. Hilbert Phase 1, S11.1 (dies A5/G11 – this coin); SNG Kayhan 441 (2 punches are same); SNG München 701 (2 punches are same); Rosen 577; Traité I 17. VF.
From the William H. Birkinshaw Collection. Ex John F. Sullivan Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 70, 21 September 2005), lot 251.