430, Lot: 145. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes. Circa 620/10-564/53 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (10.1mm, 2.35 g). Sardes mint. Confronted heads of roaring lions, “sun” on foreheads (die positioned to feature the left side lion); WALWEL (in Lydian) downward between / Two incuse squares. Weidauer Group XVII, 101–2 (same die and punches); SNG Ashmolean 754–5. VF.