CNG 91, Lot: 315. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Kroisos. Circa 560-546 BC. AV Twelfth Stater (6mm, 0.64 g). Light standard. Sardes mint. Struck circa 550-546 BC. Confronted foreparts of lion right and bull left / Incuse square punch. Walberg Group VI, 3 (same die and punch); Berk 10-3; Traité –; SNG Kayhan –; Gulbenkian 759; Triton XI, lot 258 (same die and punch); CNG 82, lot 628 (same die and punch). EF.