Watch List notes:

LYDIA, Persian Imperial Coinage, Kingdom of, Croesus or later, (c.550-520 B.C.), silver half stater or siglos, (5.29 g), obv. confronting foreparts of lion, facing right, and bull facing left, rev. two incuse punches of unequal size, side by side, (S.3420, BMC 41, Traite pl.10, 9, SNG von Aulock 2877, I. Carradice, Coinage of the Persian Empire BAR Inter. Ser. 343, [1987], Pl.10, 3). Very fine and rare.

Ex George Mihailuk Collection, from Richard Welling 21.5.2007. 2005.