Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 201. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Time of Cyrus to Darios I. Circa 545-520 BC. AR Siglos (5.25 g). Sardes mint. Confronted foreparts of lion and bull / Two incuse square punches of unequal size. Berk 23; Traité I 411; SNG Kayhan 1025 (same punches); SNG von Aulock 2877-9; SNG Copenhagen 456; Rosen 663. Good VF, toned, slight granularity.

This coinage, which imitated the types of King Kroisos, was the first coinage of the Achaemenid Empire.