Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 398. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $403. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes II. Circa 610-560 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (0.56 g). Sardes mint. Lion’s paw / Incuse square punch. Karwiese Series I, group 3 (Ephesos); SNG Kayhan 1016. VF.

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