Watch List notes:

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (9mm, 2.28 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Geometric type. Geometric figure resembling a star, composed of a cross centered upon a polygon of eight sides / Rectangular incuse punch divided horizontally and vertically into four compartments by two perpendicular lines; the upper two compartments divided into thirds by two parallel lines; the lower two compartments divided into halves by a single line, the upper halves contain a pellet, the lower halves are bisected by two small vertical lines. Weidauer –; Traité I 5; SNG Kayhan 698; Zhuyuetang 3; HPM pl. 16, 8 (Paeonia); Triton X, lot 320 (all from the same die and punch). Near EF, toned. Rare.