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LYDIAN KINGDOM. Alyattes or Walwet (ca. 610-561 BC). EL 1/12 stater or hemihecte (7mm, 1.16 gm). NGC VF 5/5 - 5/5. Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion left; partial inscription WALWET in Lydian script before / Incuse square punch. Weidauer 113. J. Spier in Studies Price (London 1998), pp. 330-332. Karweise, Ephesos, p. 123, 480 and p. 145, 534. Le Rider, La naissance de la monnaie, pp. 49-57. Bright, lemony flan with even wear and plenty of details remaining.
The early electrum fractions inscribed with the Lydian legend WALWET were engraved on the obverse with two confronting lion's heads and the legend in between. Invariably the flans were too small to show both lion heads; most surviving specimens show the right-facing lion head only, sometimes with a portion of the legend and left-facing head. This is a rare example showing the left-facing head in its entirety.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 1000-1500 USD
LYDIAN KINGDOM. Alyattes or Walwet (ca. 610-561 BC). EL 1/12 stater or hemihecte (7mm, 1.16 gm). NGC VF 5/5 - 5/5. Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion left; partial inscription WALWET in Lydian script before / Incuse square punch. Weidauer 113. J. Spier in Studies Price (London 1998), pp. 330-332. Karweise, Ephesos, p. 123, 480 and p. 145, 534. Le Rider, La naissance de la monnaie, pp. 49-57. Bright, lemony flan with even wear and plenty of details remaining.
The early electrum fractions inscribed with the Lydian legend WALWET were engraved on the obverse with two confronting lion's heads and the legend in between. Invariably the flans were too small to show both lion heads; most surviving specimens show the right-facing lion head only, sometimes with a portion of the legend and left-facing head. This is a rare example showing the left-facing head in its entirety.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 1000-1500 USD