Fourteen Different Banker's Marks

236, Lot: 182. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes to Kroisos. Circa 610-546 BC. EL Trite – 1/3 Stater (13mm, 4.69 g). Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, sun with multiple rays on forehead / Two incuse square punches. Weidauer group XVI, 86-89; Traité I 44; Boston MFA 1764; BMC p. 2, 6; SNG Kayhan 1013. VF, with 14 banker’s marks, all apparently different.