IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (6mm, 0.57 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Geometric figure resembling a star, composed of a crosshatch design, with two parallel lines splayed at one end / Quadripartite incuse square punch with a pellet in the center; each quarter contains a diagonal line radiating from the central pellet; some sections contain further lines. McFadden 4; Elektron II 16; Rosen 279; Traité –; Zhuyuetang 5; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Kayhan 701. Toned. Good VF.
From the William H. Birkinshaw Collection, purchased from Jonathan K. Kern, August 1999.