313, Lot: 64. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes. Circa 610-560 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (12mm, 4.74 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Confronted lion’s heads (only the left is visible); walwet (partially off flan) between / Two incuse square punches. Weidauer Group XVII, 91–2 and 95; Traité I –. VF.

From the Clearwater Collection.

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.