CNG 94, Lot: 626. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes. Circa 610-560 BC. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater (10mm, 2.35 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Figural type. Sardes mint. Confronted lion heads (only the right visible); [WA]LWE[T] (in Lydian, retrograde) between / Two incuse square punches. Weidauer Group XVII, 99-100 (same dies and punches); Traité I 57; SNG Kayhan 1012; Boston MFA 1771. VF, die rust, edge split.

From the Clearwater Collection.