347, Lot: 234. Estimate $100. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Ardys – Alyattes. Circa 630s-564/53 BC. Fourrée Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (12mm, 0.87 g). Head of roaring lion right, sun on forehead / Incuse square punch. For prototype, cf. Weidauer Group XV, 79-85. Fine, plating broken in areas, exposing silver core, numerous countermarks along edge.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 43 (24 September 1997), lot 574.