269, Lot: 131. Estimate $200. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes. Circa 610-560 BC. EL 1/24 Stater (6mm, 0.57 g). Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Lion’s paw / Square incuse punch. Karwiese series I, type 3 (Ephesos); SNG Kayhan 1016. VF.

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