311, Lot: 768. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes. Circa 610-560 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (11mm, 4.71 g). Sardes mint. Confronted lion heads (only the left visible); [WALWET (in Lydian) between (only traces visible)] / Two incuse square punches. Cf. Weidauer Group XVII, 91–2 and 95; Traité I –. VF.

This issue is struck with an obverse die containing two heads, but is typically struck so that only one or the other lion head is visible.