Watch List notes:

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Alyattes – Kroisos. Circa 620/10-550/39 BC. EL Trite – Third Stater (12.5mm, 4.70 g). Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, "sun" with multiple rays on forehead / Two incuse squares. Weidauer Group XVI, 89; SNG Ashmolean 749–51; SNG Kayhan 1013; Boston MFA 1765–6; Traité I 44. Lightly toned, a couple of bankers' marks on reverse. Good VF.


From the M.J.W. Collection. Ex Harlan J Berk BBS 157 (14 December 2007), lot 8.