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313. IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (11mm, 4.61 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 –; SNG Kayhan 697; Zhuyuetang 2; SNG Copenhagen (Cyprus, etc.), pl. 10, 318; Rosen Sale, lot 12; Triton X, lot 319; Triton IX, lot 944–5 (all struck from the same obv. die). Good VF, toned. Rare. ($2000) From the RAJ Collection, purchased in 2000 from F. Shore.
314. 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. ($1000)
315. IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 625-600 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.16 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Geometric type. Geometric figure resembling a star, composed of a cross centered upon a polygon of eight sides / Quadripartite incuse square punch with a pellet in the center; each quarter contains a diagonal line radiating from the central pellet. Weidauer –; Traité –; SNG Kayhan 699-700; Zhuyuetang 4; Triton X, lot 321; Triton IX, lot 946 (all struck from the same obv. die and rev. punch). EF, toned. Rare. ($750)
2:1 3:1 2:1 316. 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 Unpublished.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. ($1500) 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.
2:1 2:1 3:1 317. IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.37 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Figural type. Bridled horse head left / Rough incuse square. Weidauer 141 = Weber 5718; cf. Traité I 70 (stater); cf. SNG Kayhan 715–8 (fractions); Gorny & Mosch 211, lot 337. Superb EF, lightly toned. Very rare, and finer than the Gorny specimen, which realized a hammer of €17,000. ($5000) This rare type, known in only small numbers, but in a series of denominations from stater to myshemhekte, is among the very earliest of figural coins. Its early date is proven by the presence in the Artemision foundation deposit of a hemihekte and myshemihekte of this issue (E.S.G. Robinson, “Coins from the Ephesian Artemision Reconsidered” in JHS LXXI [1951], 24–5). The present coin, with an exceptionally fresh obverse die, is perhaps the finest known. The superb example that was in Gorny & Mosch 211 (4 March 2013), lot 337, while in a high state of preservation, was struck from an die that had begun to deteriorate and develop small cracks.
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