CNG 102, Lot: 501. Estimate $750. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Kroisos. Circa 564/53-550/39 BC. AV Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (6.5mm, 0.67 g). Light standard. Sardes mint. Confronted foreparts of lion and bull / Incuse square. Berk 10–3; Walburg Group VI, 2–4 (same die and punch); Traité I pp. 233–4; SNG München 9 (same die and punch); Gulbenkian 759; CNG 100, lot 1494 (same dies). Near EF.