Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 480. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $775. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Time of Kroisos. Circa 561-546 BC. AR Half-Stater - Siglos (5.22 gm). Confronted foreparts of lion and bull / Double incuse square punch. Rosen 663; SNG Copenhagen 456; SNG von Aulock 2875; Carradice, "Two Achaemenid Hoards," NumChron 1998, 42 (same dies). Toned, good VF. ($500)

From the Ronald Cohen Collection.