455, Lot: 149. Estimate $150. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Ardys – Alyattes. Circa 630s-564/53 BC. Fourrée Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (12mm, 0.87 g). Head of roaring lion right, sun on forehead / Incuse square punch. For prototype, cf. Weidauer Group XV, 79-85. Plating broken in areas, exposing silver core, numerous countermarks along edge. Fine.

Ex collection of a Southern Pathologist (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 347, 25 March 2015), lot 234 (hammer $550); Classical Numismatic Group 43 (24 September 1997), lot 574.