423, Lot: 179. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Alyattes – Kroisos. Circa 620/10-550/39 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (12mm, 4.74 g). Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, “sun” with multiple rays on forehead / Two incuse squares. Weidauer Group XVI, 86–9; SNG Ashmolean 749–51. VF, a couple bankers’ marks. Well centered.

From the WRG Collection, purchased from William Porter, December 1989.