333, Lot: 84. Estimate $300. Sold for $1200. 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 (13mm, 4.63 g). Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, [sun with multiple rays] on forehead / Two incuse square punches. Weidauer Group XVI, 86–9; Traité I 44; SNG Kayhan 1013; SNG von Aulock 2868–9; Rosen 655-6. VF, worn dies causing the rays of the sunburst to be absent.