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CNG 94, Lot: 630. Estimate $300.
Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes. Circa 610-560 BC. EL Ninety-Sixth Stater (3mm, 0.13 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Figural type. Lion’s paw / Incuse punch. Karwiese Series I, Group 1 (Ephesos); Weidauer –; SNG Kayhan –; SNG von Aulock 1805 (Uncertain Ionia, shell); Elektron II 70 (Uncertain Ionia). VF.


From the Daniel Koppersmith Collection. Purchased privately from William M. Rosenblum.

See Spier, esp. p. 333 and note 14, for the attribution of Karwiese’s series I coins to Weidauer Group XV (Alyattes).