Electrum Issues of Alyattes in Lydia

CNG 94, Lot: 620. Estimate $10000. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes. Circa 610-560 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (13mm, 4.69 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Figural type. Sardes mint. Confronted lion heads (only the left visible); WALWET (in Lydian, retrograde) between / Two incuse square punches. Weidauer Group XVII, 91-2; Traité I –; SNG Kayhan –; Boston MFA –. Good VF, edge splits. Clear inscription, excellent die state.

From the Daniel Koppersmith Collection. Ex Berk BBS 179 (24 May 2012), lot 5.