Triton XVIII, Lot: 23. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Alyattes – Kroisos. Circa 620/10-550/39 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (8mm, 0.80 g). Head of roaring lion right, sun with no rays on forehead / Incuse square. Weidauer Group XVI, –; Traité I –; Sunrise 4 corr. (metal; this coin). Near EF. Extremely rare denomination, unpublished in the standard references.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 180 (12 October 2009), lot 200.