CNG 100, Lot: 1488. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Ardys – Alyattes. Circa 630s-564/53 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (12mm, 4.68 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion left, “sun” on forehead; WALWEL (in retrograde Lydian [partially visible]) downward on left, read from inside-out / Two square punches. Weidauer Group XVII, 93–4 and 96; Traité –; SNG Kayhan –; SNG von Aulock –. Good VF. Rare.