416, Lot: 248. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3500. 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 (13mm, 4.67 g). Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, “sun” with multiple rays on forehead / Two square punches. Weidauer Group XVI, 89; SNG Ashmolean 749–51. Good VF, a couple small flan flaws on obverse.