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376, Lot: 209. Estimate $200.
Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. Kroisos. Circa 564/53-550/39 BC. Fourrée Stater – Double Siglos (21mm, 8.93 g). Sardes mint. Confronted foreparts of lion right and bull left / Two incuse squares (using the same punch twice). Cf. Berk 20; cf. Traité I 407; cf. SNG Kayhan 1018. VF, pits on the obverse and edge showing the base core.


An interesting contemporary counterfeit where the reverse is struck using the same punch twice, in the manner of some early electrum!