CNG 100, Lot: 1489. Estimate $10000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Ardys – Alyattes. Circa 630s-564/53 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7.5mm, 1.17 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Confronted heads of roaring lions; WALWEL (in retrograde Lydian) downward between / Square punch. Weidauer Group XVII, 111–3; Traité I 58; SNG Kayhan 1015 corr. (references; same die and punch); SNG von Aulock –. EF, lightly toned. Exceptionally well struck with clear inscription, likely the finest known. Very rare.