Watch List notes:

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Forty-eighth Stater (5mm, 0.31 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 three central pellets and diagonal lines radiating around. McFadden 5 = Adams I 94 (this coin illustrated); Linzalone LN 1066 var. (no pellets); Zhuyuetang 6 var. (same); otherwise unpublished in the standard references. Toned. EF. Extremely rare fraction for series.

From the William H. Birkinshaw Collection. Ex Dr. Lawrence A. Adams Collection (Part I, Classical Numismatic Group 100, 7 October 2015), lot 94, purchased from Jonathan Kern, June 1999.