Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 538. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1270. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes. Circa 610-560 BC. EL 1/6 Stater – Hekte (2.33 g). Branch/subsidiary mint. Head of roaring lion right; [√¡]©√[e©] (retrograde) downward on right / Double incuse square punch. Weidauer 100 and 101; Boston MFA 1771; Triton VI, lot 401; CNG 79, lot 365 (all from the same dies). VF, struck from worn dies.