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Triton XVII Sessions 1 & 2  7 January 2014
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Lot 316

Estimate: 1500 USD
Price realized: 3750 USD
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IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Hemitetarte – Eighth Stater (9mm, 1.73 g). Lydo-Milesian standard(?). Geometric type. Raised square with irregular hash marks / Incuse square punch. Unpublished. Good VF, toned. Unique.


From the Daniel Koppersmith Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 91 (19 September 2012), lot 300 (there as a hemihekte of an uncertain standard).

The present piece adds a new denomination to a small series of early geometric types. The group apparently consists of a hemistater (Traité I 1, 7.13 g), a hemitetarte (present coin), and a myshemihekte (Elektron I 51, 0.50 g), with weights roughly comporting to the Lydo-Milesian standard.
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