Triton XVIII, Lot: 20. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Ardys – Alyattes. Circa 630s-564/53 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (8mm, 1.12 g). Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion left; WALW (in Lydian) to left (only traces visible) / Incuse square. Weidauer Group XVII, 113; Traité I 58; Sunrise 1 corr. (metal; this coin). EF, lightly toned, great metal quality. Rare.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 190 (11 October 2010), lot 294.