CNG 109, Lot: 166. Estimate $1500. Sold for $5500. 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 (11.5mm, 4.74 g). Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, “sun” with multiple rays on forehead / Two square punches. Weidauer Group XVI, 86–9; SNG Ashmolean 749–51. Near EF, small mark on obverse. Well centered.