Watch List notes:

KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes. Circa 620/10-564/53 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (13mm, 4.69 g). Sardes mint. Confronted lion heads (only the left visible); WALWET (in Lydian, retrograde) between / Two incuse squares. Weidauer Group XVII, 91–2; Traité I –; SNG Kayhan –; Boston MFA –. Edge splits. Good VF. Clear inscription, excellent die state.


From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex Daniel Koppersmith Collecton (Classical Numismatic Group 94, 18 September 2013), lot 620 (hammer $15,000); Berk BBS 179 (24 May 2012), lot 5.