Watch List notes:

KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Alyattes – Kroisos. Circa 620/10-550/39 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7.5mm, 1.19 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, "sun" with no rays on forehead / Incuse square. Weidauer Group XVI, 90; Kurth G29–30; SNG Ashmolean 757; SNG Kayhan 1731; Boston MFA 1770; Traité I 47. Toned, a few light marks. Good VF.

From the William H. Birkinshaw Collection. Ex Cederlind 117 (28 September 1999), lot 604; Leu 71 (24 October 1997), lot 223.