Triton XVII, Lot: 324. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Uncertain. 6th century BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7mm, 1.16 g). Forepart of lion left / Bird (eagle or owl?) standing left within incuse square. Spier p. 332, 11 (A7/P4) = Traité I 53 = J.P. Six, “Monnaies grecques, inédites et incertaines” in NC 1890, p. 247, 1 (same dies); cf. Trition XIV, lot 318 (hekte, same obv. die and one rev. punch); cf. Konuk & Lorber Fig. 20 (same). Good VF. Extremely rare.

The reverse die links this coin to a series of inscribed Lydian tritai and hektai with the partial legend (in Lydian), ... late ... (see Spier p. 332). Accordingly, the entire series, including this uninscribed coin, can be confidently assigned to Lydia.