CNG 96, Lot: 488. Estimate $750. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Alyattes – Kroisos. Circa 620/10-550/39 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (11mm, 4.60 g). Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, sun with multiple rays on forehead / Two incuse squares. Weidauer Group XVI, 86–9; Traité I 44; SNG Kayhan 1013; SNG Ashmolean 749–52; SNG von Aulock 2868–9; Sunrise 2. VF, toned.

Ex Bowers & Ruddy FPL (Fall 1980), no. 43.