330, Lot: 86. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Alyattes – Kroisos. Circa 620/10-550/39 BC. EL Forty-eighth Stater (5mm, 0.33 g). Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Lion’s paw / Incuse punch. Karwiese Series I, Group 6, 87 (same rev. punch); SNG Kayhan –; Rosen 301 (same rev. punch). VF.

See Spier, especially p. 333 and note 14, for the attribution of Karwiese’s Series I coins to Weidauer Group XV.