Watch List notes:

*Lydia, Croesus (560-546 BC), heavy weight gold stater, foreparts of lion and bull face to face, rev., two incuse punches, 10.74g (BMC 30; McClean 8635; Gulbenkian 756), flaw on top of bull's head, very fine and rare. Ex Spink, 3 March 1998, lot 36. It was under Croesus that the first pure gold coins are thought to be struck replacing the earlier electrum coinage in western Asia Minor. Staters of the heavier weight, as here, pre-date the more commonly encountered lighter weight issues that continued to be struck in Lydia into the Persian period. (4000 - 6000)