CNG 94, Lot: 628. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes. Circa 610-560 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7mm, 1.18 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Figural type. Sardes mint. Confronted lion heads (only the left visible); WALW[ET] (in Lydian, retrograde) between / Incuse square punch. Weidauer Group XVII, 113; Traité I –; SNG Kayhan –; Boston MFA –. Good VF.
From the Daniel Koppersmith Collection. Ex Berk BBS 179 (24 May 2012), lot 6; Hirsch 165 (14 February 1990), lot 424.