IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Hemihekte - Twelfth Stater (8.5mm, 1.45 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Plain globular surface / Incuse square. Cf. Weidauer Group I, 4 (hekte); cf. Artemision 2 (myshemihekte); Elektron I 5–7; Traité I –; SNG von Aulock 7763; SNG Kayhan 676–8. Toned, light scratches. As made. Rare.
From the William H. Birkinshaw Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 51 (15 September 1999), lot 433.