Details
LOT 2935
Ionia, uncertain mint EL 1/48 Stater. Circa 600-550 BC.
Lydo-Milesian standard. Crab(?) / Incuse square with irregular lines within. Weidauer -; Elektron -; cf. Rosen 81 and 346-7 (1/6 and 1/96); cf. Traité I 114 = BMC 26 (1/96); SNG Kayhan -; SNG von Aulock -; Weber -. Near Very Fine.(0.35gr, 5mm).
Provenance
From a Swiss private collection, before 2005.
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