298, Lot: 49. Estimate $500. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Alyattes – Kroisos. Circa 610-546 BC. EL Trite – 1/3 Stater (12mm, 4.75 g). Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, sun with multiple rays on forehead / Two square punches. Weidauer group XVI, 86-9; Elektron I 70; SNG von Aulock 2868; SNG Kayhan 1013; Rosen 655-6; Traité I 44. Good VF, light scrape above eye.