★ Extremely Rare ★

IONIA, Uncertain. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater. Lydo-Milesian standard. Obv: Crude chimaira(?) right on striated background. Rev: Two incuse squares. Cf. Linzalone 1043 (stater); cf. Gulbenkian 719 (stater); cf. Triton XIV, lot 298–302 (for other denominations of this series); cf. Gorny & Mosch 190, lot 250 (trite); otherwise unpublished in the standard references, but cf. cf. Weidauer 11-3, 18-25, and 177 for similar figural-on-striated obverse trites. Extremely rare, the first hekte known for this series. Condition: Very fine.
Weight: 2.36 g.
Diameter: 10 mm.