Triton XXI, Lot: 499. Estimate $2000. Sold for $6250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Alyattes – Kroisos. Circa 620/10-550/39 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (12mm, 4.71 g). Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, “sun” with multiple rays on forehead / Two square punches. Weidauer Group XVI, 86–9; Traité I 44; SNG Ashmolean 749–51; SNG Kayhan 1013; SNG von Aulock 2868–9; Rosen 655-6. EF, lightly toned.

Ex Gemini VII (9 January 2011), lot 536 (hammer $4750).