455, Lot: 153. Estimate $300. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Cyrus – Darios I. Circa 550/39-520 BC. AR Siglos (16.5mm, 5.31 g). Kroiseid type. Sardes mint. Confronted foreparts of lion right and bull left / Two incuse square punches. Berk 22; SNG Ashmolean 762–71. Toned, typical granular surfaces. Good VF.

Ex collection of a Southern Pathologist (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 347, 25 March 2015), lot 235; Classical Numismatic Review XXII.1 (Winter-Spring 1997), no. SP1012 (part of).