KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Ardys – Alyattes. Circa 630s-564/53 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (5.5mm, 0.57 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Head of boar right / Incuse square. Spier p. 332, 6 = Rosen 282 (A5/P5); Weidauer Series XIII (unlisted denomination); Kurth G13 (same rev. punch); cf. SNG Kayhan 1011 (hemihekte); ATEC 113. Good VF. Very rare.
From the MM Collection. Ex Bernhard Terletzki Collection (Künker 295, 25 September 2017), lot 328, purchased from Bankhaus H. Aufhäuser, 10 November 1992.