Greece (Ionia, Miletos): ca. 550-490 BC silver 1/12 stater; lion and stellate pattern

This is a small silver twelfth-stater coin from Miletos (Miletus), an ancient Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, in what is now modern Turkey.

It is very early and dates to the Archaic period, around five to five and a half centuries BC, not much more than a century after the dawn of coinage.

The obverse portrays the head of a roaring lion and the reverse has an incuse punch, as many Archaic coins did; in this case, an ornate stellate pattern.  

Diameter: 10 mm.  Weight: 1.00 g.

Ex- Ephesus Numismatics, 2 December 2024, with their tag.

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