Ancients
LYDIAN KINGDOM. Alyattes or Walwet (ca. 610-546 BC). EL sixth-stater or hecte (10mm, 2.32 gm). NGC Choice Fine 4/5 - 5/5. Uninscribed, Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Head of lion right, mouth open, mane bristling, radiate globule above eye / Two square punches of different size, side by side, with irregular interior surfaces. Weidauer 76-8. Boston 1769.
Ex Buzz Owen Collection (Heritage Auctions, 3063 NYINC, 16 January 2018), lot 33214; Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 53 (15 March 2000), lot 488
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Estimate: 1000-1500 USD