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Ionia, Ephesos AR Diobol or Twelfth Stater (12mm, 1.01g), c. 6th cent. BCE.
Obv: Bee seen from above.
Rev: Quadratum incusum.
Ref: Demeester 113 (this coin); Karweise (1995) No. 54.
Provenance: ex J. FALM Collection: Miniature Masterpieces of Greek Coinage depicting Animals [acq. Hauck & Aufhäuser, 1994; sold, NAC 82 (Zurich, 19 May 2015), 782].
Published: Demeester 113 (this coin illustrated on p. 145) in Anne Demeester & Bernard Daubersy (photos) (2003), Les Animaux et la Monnaie Grecque (Brussels: Arnumis)
Note: Could this be Karwiese (2019, Die Münzprägung von Ephesos), p. 176, No. 7 (1.03g) = Aufhäuser 10 (5 Oct 1993), 146 (possibly unsold, then purchased in 1994)?
