Rare Twelfth Stater

318, Lot: 233. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Alyattes – Kroisos. Circa 610-546 BC. EL Twelfth Stater (7mm, 1.15 g). Sardes mint. Boar’s head right / Incuse square punch. Cf. Weidauer Group XIII, 55 (trite); Spier 5 (same dies); SNG Kayhan 1011. VF. Rare.