Watch List notes:

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-Fourth Stater (7mm, 0.63 g). Phokaic standard. Figural type. Lion seated right / Incuse square punch. CNG 85, lot 438; CNG E-281, lot 117; Gemini VI, lot 161; otherwise unpublished, but cf. Gulbenkian 724, Nomos 3, lot 123, and SNG von Aulock 1776 for the hekte of this type. EF. Extremely rare, the fourth, and finest, known.


From the Daniel Koppersmith Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 87 (18 May 2011), lot 544.