IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (7mm, 0.57 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Head of bull right / Incuse square punch. Weidauer –; Traité I –; SNG Kayhan –; Rosen –; cf. Elektron II 67 (for hekte of same series?); Leu Web Auction 1, lot 570; CNG E-4645, lot 149. VF.
This rare bull type with a plain curving shoulder is not to be mistaken with the more common series, where the animal is depicted with a pelleted shoulder (cf. SNG Kayhan 734).