342, Lot: 298. Estimate $750. Sold for $1300. 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 (13.5mm, 4.71 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. VF, edge split.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from Superior Stamp & Coin, 28 December 1989.