CNG 111, Lot: 281. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1600. 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 (12.5mm, 4.71 g). Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, “sun” with multiple rays on forehead / Two incuse squares. Weidauer Group XVI, 86–9; SNG Ashmolean 749–51. VF, toned, banker’s mark on edge.

From the Ealing Collection. Ex Lennox Galleries FPL 4 (December 1996), no. G27.