384, Lot: 265. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Cyrus – Darios I. Circa 550/39-520 BC. AR Half Stater – Siglos (16mm, 5.31 g). Kroiseid type. Sardes mint. Confronted foreparts of lion right and bull left / Two incuse squares. Berk 22; Traité I 409–11; SNG Kayhan 1025; SNG Ashmolean 762–71; SNG von Aulock 2877-9. VF, toned, typical porosity, metal flaws and light scrapes on the obverse.

From the Dr. Lawrence D. Sporty Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 151 (9 October 2006), lot 199.