Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 198. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Kroisos. Circa 560-546 BC. AV 1/6 Stater (1.33 g). Sardes mint. Light series. Struck circa 550-546 BC. Confronted foreparts of lion and bull / Two incuse square punches of unequal size. Walburg group IV, 6 (this coin); Berk 8; Traité I 406 = de Luynes 2801; SNG Kayhan -; SNG von Aulock -; Weber 6772; Gemini II, lot 119 (same die and punches). EF. Very rare, and, with the Gemini piece, one of the two finest known.

Ex Leu 50 (25 April 1990), lot 179.