CNG 94, Lot: 629. Estimate $300. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes. Circa 610-560 BC. Fourée Forty-eighth Stater (4mm, 0.21 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Figural type. Lion’s paw / Patterned incuse square punch. Cf. Karwiese Series I, Group 4 (Ephesos); Weidauer –; cf. SNG Kayhan 1017; Elektron I 56 var. (plain incuse – all official issues). VF.

From the Daniel Koppersmith Collection. Ex Hirsch 281 (2 May 2012), lot 366.

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