Watch List notes:

KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes. Circa 620/10-564/53 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (13mm, 4.72 g). Sardes mint. Confronted heads of roaring lions, "sun" on foreheads (die positioned to feature the right side lion); WALWEL (in retrograde Lydian [partially visible]) downward on left, read from inside-out / Two square punches. Weidauer Group XVII, 93–4 and 96; Traité –; SNG Kayhan –; SNG von Aulock –. In NGC encapsulation, 2077588-001, graded XF, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 3/5.


Ex CNG Inventory 476874 (January 2018).